RE: How do you decide if you get a head mount?
it all depends on the person and the hunt.
When I did taxidermy work,I mounted everything from a doe to a very large 8pt that scored in the 150s.(not taken any where around here)
if we in this area of Fla. waited to take a 3 1/2 year old buck or a 150 class ; there would not be a deer taken ever again(in my area of central Fla.)