Style question for outdoors writers

We were talking about AP style in class today and one of my students posed a question that stumped me. Not being a hunter, I had no idea what he was talking about until he explained it.

He asked the correct style for writing about a deer's antlers. It seems different antlers are IDed as G3, G4 and the like. Should it be G3, G-3 or something else. The only thing that came to mind that was similar was the spaces on a chess board.

Your help is appreciated.

 

Our outdoor writer says individual points, or tines, on a deer's antlers are indeed identified as G2, G3, G4 to assist in "scoring" the antlers for record books.

Maybe you could find a writer in your area to call and double-check or Google "deer antler scoring" for more help.

 

This is the style I've seen.

(But, adding or subtracting the hyphen isn't going to confuse the reference.)

 

agree with everyone else so far - G2, G3, G4, etc.

 

Just change it to "nice rack."

 

Frank, next time I'm on the road, I'll use that line.
"Hi! How are you? Woh. What a nice G4!"

 

Thanks for the help; nice rack is what came to my mind as well. FWIW, the kid who asked the question has an older sister who played softball when I was stringing. Not saying that her and nice rack couldn't be used in the same sentence, but I'm just saying.

Anywho, our local daily doesn't have an outdoors writer anymore, and my Google search turned up about equal entries for G3 and G-3.

Thanks again.