Fellow I was hunting with took a Cow Elk with antlers once... we block and tackled it out of the canyon WHOLE so as not to disconnect head from body until it' d been checked... there was no problem with that.. bio said it happened 1 in 5000 times in elk.... the story of that 4 pt blacktail is in the new American Bowhunter Mag and there is no mention of the buck having been confiscated...
Have a great Hunt....
Twangg