I did the same thing with a 14 point years ago. Yes guys, he scored 14 points. He was just pushing big with a 6 point brow tine. Go figure. His back hip was broke and he was moving very little. I snuck up on him and dropped him into history.

This year I saw a severely messed up 8 point with a broken hip from at least last spring. I was going to drop him if I got the shot even though I'm holding out for something bigger in the contest. It was too bad to watch him drag his back leg around. He has survived all summer long like that but I still would have dropped him. I never got the shot but it needs to be done.

One other time I shot a deer with a messed up rack. When it came to butchering him, his hind quarter with the old wound, was infected real bad. I trashed the whole deer. Was that right or just paranoid? You tell me.