I shot a really nice buck on 12/6 (well nice for our area)
The thing is, it has 4 broken tines on it, as you can see from the photos below, it is pretty busted up.
However I do have documentation of what it looked like before he started snapping tines. A couple of the shots I have below are from a video camera, so even though the still shots didn't turn out really well, I think a taxidermist should be able to recreate the points if they could see the video.
Now my dilemma is do I leave him the way he is? or do I take him back to the way he was?
The character of the buck the way he is right now feeds into the bruiser aspect that I think he was, when I shot him, he had blood on his antlers, a big deep cut over one eye and a couple puncture marks on his neck.
But the missing G4 and crab claw on the end of the same beam along with the long browtines really made him unique also.....
Well take a look at what he is, and what he was, and let me know what you think......
You can see where he broke off two tines on his left beam, one a normal looking G4, the other was a tine that protruded to the inside of his spread.
Here you can see what remains of his browtines.
This photo is here for those of you that liked my shed photos so much with the dollar for scale, wife is doing laundry so I could take the picture on her washing machine
This is a still shot off of the video I have of him, taken on opening day 9-13
You can sort of see two tines out on the end of the beam, if you could see the video they show up better but trying to advance it and pausing didn't produce very good still shots. (for those that are curious, this was taken at about 90-100 yards out, and me trying to hold the camera still, I wasn't very successful stopping the jitters......)
The final picture is of him in velvet, showing off is browtines, they really didn't grow noticeably longer, but they never matched the mass of his other tines. (photo 8-13, about a month before I took the video)
What would you do if you were mounting it?
