I mainly don't unless it has some real character to it. I have many sets in the house and garage and the wife uses them for x-mas decorations about the house once in awhile. I kept a set of 131"10pt for rattling and give the others away to some friends for re-enactment clothes and such.

I've been deer hunting for over 30 years and have kept every single set of antlers I have killed including spikes. The spikes were from my earlier years. A few are mounted on the wall as full shoulder mounts. Some are skull mounts. I have 20 or so racks in my hunting room. The rest are in the storage building on the walls. I know keeping antlers isn't important to a lot of people, but they are all trophies to me. Like earlier said, each set brings back memories of the hunt.

Wife doesn't want dead deer on the walls and it has been that way for almost 42 years. I have a bunch of antlers at my deer camp on the wall and a big pile of caribou, elk and deer antlers in the basement here at the house. Someday when I create my man cave I'll put them on a plaque. Antlers to me are great when on a living animal. Not that big a thing to me once they are dead.

I had a few Buck Antlers when I first started Hunting,mostly a few Spikes and an occasional 4 or 6 Point Buck's Antlers,as I progressed in Hunting I let the smaller Bucks walk and only shoot a Buck that was as Big or Bigger than the last one I shot from the year before.So far I have a very nice 8-Point Buck I shot with my Dad's 30-06 back in 1995,another nice 8-Pointer in 2006,a 9-Pointer in 2009 I shot with my Brother's .270 WSM,then I found a nice Dead (1/2 Eaten Skeleton)10 point Buck in our wooods that was wounded in the Nov. 2009 Rifle Deer Season and 3 months later I found it on Feb 18 2010,I had a lot of History with this Buck....over 2 years of trail camera pictures of Him and I recieved a Permit and had it Re-Caped and paid to have it mounted and its hanging on my Log Wall.

Let see....I found a very nice 8-Point Buck skull in 2009 and have it hanging on the wall...I shot a Basket-Rack 8-Point Buck back in 2005 and I cut the Antlers off and use it for a nice size pair of Rattling Horns,I have each of my 2 Daughters names written on the bottom of the antlers for good luck.....I have another 8-Point Buck I shot back in 2010 getting it done in a European Mount,I have a 6-Point Buck I shot with my Compound Bow back in 2006 still in the Freezer....and I have found a few Shed Antlers around the Family Farm while shed hunting over the past several years.

I dropped off my Biggest Buck at the Taxidermist this past Rifle deer Season in Nov 2011,a nice wide 11-Point Buck that should be finished some time this Summer of 2012...........so yeah I save most of my Antlers! Yikes!!!!!


Now this is all over the course of several years and I get to Bow Hunt 4 months of the Year and Rifle Hunt about 11 days out of the year also and we are allowed 2 Deer tags in our County...I have shot a lot of nice Big Doe's over the years I opted to let the smaller Bucks walk and I hunted for the meat...it just seems I've been lucky/blessed with getting several nice Deers and I have learned a lot over the years to being a better Hunter,and I wouldn't shot a smaller Buck if I wasn't planning an getting it mounted so I would settle on harvesting a nice Doe instead of shooting a smaller Buck that would grow bigger over the years.


I also love running my trail camera's 24/7 year round,365 days a year...its great to see all the different Deer and Wildlife out there and it only cost the price of some pictures or a CD to cherish them for ever.Plus I have been doing a lot of Predator Hunting in the last 3 years and thats a whole new Sport in itself....planning on getting a Coyote Mounted or Tanned and a Bobcat too.

I have all but just a few that I've killed over the last 31 years and all are dated and labeled, gun, bow or muzzleloader. I have around 35 sets in all.

I won't shoot a buck if I'm not willing to mount it. That being said, every buck I've shot is either hanging on my wall or in the process of being mounted. When I find sheds, I keep those too. Someday, I'll do something with them.

I may have mentioned this previously. One use for unmounted racks and found antlers is to dress up floor and pedestal mounts.

for me I have the carcass room as the wife likes to put it. Some are in my gun/hunting room and the rest are in a back entrance way of my house nailed on the wall. But they are all kept.

I still have the small spikes horns that I killed with the bow. It was my first buck and to this day, I remember every part of that hunt. I put all my racks from over my 40+ years of hunting in the hunting shack. Yes, some aren't trophys to some people, but every one has a story. It is great to think back over a lifetime of hunting.

Their part of the memory so there is no way they get thrown away by me.