You know, I boiled em, baked them, fried them and I still have not found a good recipe for antlers.
Antlers has nothing to do with the quality of deer.
In this world - we no longer euthanize babies because they were born with defects. As a matter of fact, our insurance companies are bleeding money with all the people who wishes to adopt those children and provide for them, even though it costs our health system billions of dollars a year in added expense - while their quality of life is never improved.
So why shoot a deer just because it has big antlers? It's all about bragging rights, where everyone measures their level of success by how many points it had or how big the spread was or how many Boone and Crockett points it scored.
My opinion is - let the big bucks walk - so they can breed again next year and shoot the little bucks with the spike horns and eat them. The most offensive thing to me that I see, even on the television is people who shoots deer just for the bragging rights and then they give away the meat. I went to one of those so called donation butchers and found that not only do you have to donate the deer, you have to pay to cut it up - just so you can give the meat away to some lazy bums that are not willing to work and are not willing to go in the woods and hunt and try to provide for themselves.
I notice one reliefer family - who uses two names, the husband uses his name and the wife uses her maiden name so they can get twice as much food at the food pantry's as everyone else. They about wear out vehicles going from place to place to get as much free food as they can. Then you see them sitting in the Bingo parlor - gambling, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer with the money that they saved by not buying groceries.
They probably have that house stuffed so full of food that you can't even open the doors.
So my opinion is - if you aren't going to eat it, then why shoot it.
That all boils down once again to those antlers on the head and bragging rights. My favorite programs is in the states that do not have enough hunters, that has a take a doe program, where you have to shoot and tag a doe before you get a license to shoot bucks.
If they did that in Pennsylvania, we would run out of deer in about 3 years.