this happened at my buddy's camp and is something I never have thought about. how would (should) this be reported:

hunting during shotgun, a hunter shoots a buck that is clearly a buck (5 pointer). deer gets dropped, but still alive and the hunter finishes it off with a shot to the head. the shot blows off both antlers, leaving only 1 stub of 2" and the antlers are obliterated. how does the deer need to be tagged?? the regs say it needs to have (1) 3" antler. it had them but they were blown off. they tagged it as a doe, reading the regs literally. i would have tagged it as a buck.

what should have been done???