MEASURING HEADS AT THE GAME FAIR
As I said before I don't want to get into the detail of this issue. It is rightly a private matter between Mr Griffith and the UK CIC Trophy Commission. If I may however, there are two points I would like to make in response to Griff's comments.
The first is that, regardless of what the Shooting Times says, Mr Griffith's views on the Troubridge head have had absolutely nothing to do with his status viz a viz the Commission. We all agree or disagree on heads to an extent from time to time, which is why the CIC has a 'jury' system to ensure that several different views are taken into consideration when deciding on whether a head can be measured or not and indeed what its final score might be.
The second point is that the Troubridge head has not yet been seen by a representative international jury. That will take place in Paris next year at the next CIC General Assembly. The view, some months ago, of some East European judges was bound up, not with records, but with whether the measuring formula is able to deal with this size of head, of which there are now at least three in the UK, two from England and one measured at Scone, from Scotland. So judgements on its status are at this stage a little premature, one way or the other. I would suggest that those who are interested in the outcome of this, and other heads, wait until the results from the next General Assembly are published, which they will be along with what we hope will be a definitive ruling on what constitutes an abnormal head.
For what it is worth, I have always found it unremarkable that such enormous antlers require larger than normal pedicles on which to grow!