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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

540 | Learn to Field Judge with the HornScore App

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

To accurately field judge an animal, you need a solid understanding of the species' characteristics and known reference points, as well as a lot of experience judging and verifying other animals of the same species. A new app, HornScore, can help you learn how to field judge animals and make assessments of animals you may be hunting. Using your photos and videos, the HornScore app will help you field judge deer, elk, sheep, moose, and more. The app is full of educational content, as well as community content from other users of the HornScore app. In today's podcast with the app's creators, Jay Scott and Blake Cannon, we learn about the origins of the app, how it works, what the future holds, and why the app is helpful even if you aren't an inch-counting trophy hunter. HornScore App — https://hornscore.com/ The Hunt Backcountry Podcast is brought to you by Exo Mtn Gear: https://exomtngear.com/ Email Sign-up: https://exomtngear.com/newsletter Contact Us: [email protected] Leave A Message: https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry Podcast Episode Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast presented by Exo Mountain Gear.

0:18.7

This is episode number 540, and we welcome Jay Scott and Blake Cannon

0:24.6

to the podcast to talk about a new app called Horn Score. Now, if you're a long-time listener

0:31.4

of the podcast, you probably know that this isn't something myself or Steve on the surface

0:37.3

would be interested in. We're not

0:39.1

trophy guys. We don't really care about score at all. There's sometimes we're trying to shoot a mature,

0:46.7

nice animal, and thankfully we've shot some good animals, but trophy and horn scores, that's not

0:53.6

like our key thing.

0:55.2

It's not really why we hunt.

0:57.6

So when I first learned about horn score, I was like, eh, that's not for me.

1:01.9

No thanks.

1:03.4

But when I chatted more with Blake and then got to look at the app,

1:07.4

what appealed to me most is that there is an educational aspect to this that helped me

1:12.8

understand and learn about animals better, especially if there is a new hunt opportunity,

1:19.7

maybe for something more unique, could be moose, could be sheep, could be anything,

1:25.4

that I just want to learn and study and see and compare those animals.

1:31.5

And so we speak with Jay and Blake in today's episode about the app and what it is and even get

1:37.0

into these topics a little bit about trophy hunting and why horn score in all reality is for

1:42.6

everyone and all animals. We get into the different species,

1:47.1

lessons on field judging, and a whole lot more. So whether you're chasing a big limited entry

1:53.8

trophy tag this fall or you're outdoing your standard over-the-counter elk and deer hunts,

1:59.8

maybe horn score is something you want to

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