The Western manner of reporting the size of a deer or elk. A four-point buck, for example, has four tines on one side of his antlers, not including the brow tines. In eastern terms, it would be a ten-point buck. A six-point bull elk has six points on one side and six on the other. In cases where an animal has an uneven number of tines, the word "by" is inserted between the numbers, such as "five-by-six bull" or "six-by-eight mulie buck". The word "by" is written with an "X," much as dimension lumber: "3 x 4," "5 x 6", etc.