I was wondering ...if you were lucky enough to shoot a monster buck ..lets say its 150 B&C or larger ...and when you got to the buck you realized he had a couple of broken off tines and maybe the main beam has a couple of inches missing .. would you fix it when you were having it mounted or leave it like it was whenyou shot him ... and why?

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i would leave it, things like that, to me, add character to the deer. i just think it makes it look cooler.

I would leave it the way it was. I don't think many people get things fixed that were broken before they saw the deer. I could see if a point broke off if it hit a tree when crashing or some thing but that is different. To me that is like telling your taxidermist to add a few inches to a fish you caught. It isn't the fish you caught and it isn't the deer you shot.


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Leave it the way it was, that's how he died and thats how he'll stay.

I think its disrespectful to the animal to modifyit's rack after you shoot it.

I agree. If you're going to "repair" a rack, why not add a few points while you're at it? I'd never do that, but I wouldn't be offended if I was looking at someone's mount, and they said that they had fixed it. It's your deer, do whatcha wanna do.

great post, i totally agree

I would leave it, he didn't have that horn when I shot him, so he shouldn't when I mount em'.

I want to remember it the way it was when I took it. If I wanted a
built rack it would defeat the purpose of hunting. The only way I would have a rack repaired was if i shot a deer and it ran into a tree and broke a tine off and it was recovered. No inches added just repaired.

gotta leave it.

NO ,thats living in a fairyland