RE: Antler damage.
It's hard to say from this pic. I know when a deers, lets say left antler is deformed he will usualy have been injured on his right side somewhere on his body causing a deformity on the opposite sides antler. Have you seen him walking? If he has a limp chances are the antler deformity will be permenant. I shot a buck with 4 nice points on his right side and 1 big droptine point groing down the side of his face on the left. He had a broken but healed over front right leg. Looked like he was hit by a car.