If I found a rotting deer with anice rack I would cut the antlers off and take them home. Why not? The meat is of no value but the antlers do have value and leaving them to be chewed away by rodents is a waste. They could be used to make a nice display, knife handles, rattling horns or just a conversation piece. Now whether I was the one who delivered the shot that eventually killed the deer or if someone else did, it wouldn't make any difference to me as far as tagging it. I won't be putting my tag on a rotted deer and as far as I'm concerned it would take an idiot of a game warden with a Barney Fife mentalityto give me a ticket for it. I think I would fight a ticket like that all the way to a jury trial just to be a pain in the you know what. I wouldn't care if it cost me thousands just to drag the warden to court and publicly show him to be the idiot he is.