I'd go with the deer and the gun. If you hunt by yourself, getting yourself into the pic can be a little difficult, and what's more, field tags often fall off.
Besides, how many people actually LIE about shooting a doggoned deer? I've shot more deer than...(well, let your imagination run wild here). There is precious little incentive to lie on a hobby board, and I have a LOT more faith in the folks on here than that. If that faith is misplaced, I'd just as soon not know.
The real problem here is scoring. The system is kinda weighted in favor toward those of us who are fortunate enough to hunt on private land and harvest primarily, or exclusively, bucks with more than minimal racks.
That isn't unfair; most of us would rather shoot a big ol' mossy antlered monster than a 60-pound fawn.
But the reality for some of our members is that they get one shot, and one shot only, per season, at a legal deer, and that deer isn't always (or even very often) a deer with a ginormous (or even extant) rack.