just remember this as my late but great deer hunt'n grandpa us to tell me you can boil the antlers you ain't going tosoften them up enought to eat them. in other words if it's a spike or a 200 point buck shot it you may not get a chance to take onelike the one in front of you. i killed a 3x1 buck last fall he was 286# before i gutted him. so take what you want that has the most meat.