When you word it like that, I would have to say that the experience is much more important than a set of horns. There are several expereiences in the woods that you cannot put on the wall, like you mentioned. Sunlight shooting through the pines at daybreak, squirell fights (that would actually bea cool mount if you wanted to do it) the peak of the fall leaves, watchin that black bear comin barrelin down the ridge and run out everything (including you out of your mind scared to death) in the entire woods, those are all irreplaceable.

With that being said, mounts help keep other succesful memories fresh and keep a constant reminder of that adrenaline rush we all crave. Not only are they beautiful they give that deer an 'extended life' so to speak.