Broken Tine on a Deer You Have Killed
#14
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
Most every deer Ive shot, let alone mounted, have had busted up tines. I leave them just as they are. Last year, I shot a 9 point, that would have been a 11 point, except the broke off his main beam and one tine with it. He is euromounted with all busted tines and all.
#19
Leave it the way it was when you knocked him down. The only way I fix it is after the mount falls off the wall and shatters on the hard wood floor. You shot him for what he was, not for what he could be.
#20
Leave it, I don't believe that a set of hunter killed antlers should be altered. About the only way I would accept antler repair would be IF something happened AFTER you shot the buck that caused the antlers to break... like smashing into a tree or something. Other than that, leave 'em alone, in my humble opinion.