When someone says they "shot a 42 inch buffalo", are they measuring:
1. Outside spread
2. From the tip of the horn to the center of the boss
3. Something else (and if so, what)?

Outside spread of the horns.

cool, thanks

But could you imagine a place where the correct answer was #2?

I want to go there.

Put me down for two of them.

and that measurement goes along side of the hunters pecker in the record book