Even if he won' t give it to you or sell it to you as some suggested....I' m sure he' ll let you see it, just ask!

At least ask him. If he says no, maybe you can get some pictures of it anyway. Like the others have said, you really can' t claim it since you weren' t able to recover it, but you will see what might have been if you had found him.

IMO, No, I just couldn' t get myself to do that. BTY, did you ask permission to look on his land last year?

ksbuck, if it was me, I wouldn' t ask, like the others said, if he wanted to give it to ya, he would offer.

If I were him I would have given it to you without your having to ask! Tell him it means more to you than it does him, but that it' s ok if he wants to be an @ss and keep it himself.

I guess it all depends on his attitude, not your opinion and desires.

Ask yourself these questions:

1) When he described the deer, rack and arrow was he in any way condescending, annoyed or angry?

2) Did he seemed saddened by the loss of someone not harvesting the deer?

3) As a fellow bowhunter, has he ever lost a deer?

4) Does he think that you killed this big buck with either a poor shot/track job?

5) Is he a jerk, or is he a nice guy?

6) Are you guys friends or just mutual acquaintances?

I guess what I' m poking at here is, you know this guy better than any of us. Is it worth asking him or do you just want to suck it up and forget about the whole affair? If the guy wasn' t a jerk, I would ask to see the rack. If he feels you didn' t fulfill your end of the hunting " deal" (#4 above), then by asking you may worsen any bad feelings that may already exist.

I would let him keep it---personally---I would not feel deserving.

S&R

I' d ask for my arrow but as far as the antlers their his. He found them. Fortunately they didn' t go to waste. You had your chance at them last year.[:' (]