Eastwood, yes he is sure it was the same deer, as i said the arrow never exited the body, so it was still stuck in there. My uncle identified it as his arrow. Unless some one shot the exact same arrows.....and also he found the identical antler he saw when he shot it. about 4 feet away. and rcw, im aware of the rules for antlered and antlerless in WI seeing as how i live and hunt in the state.

tagged as antlerless .

Here in Texas, if the antlers have broken through the skin, it is considered an antlered deer! If he shed them, then the skin would have still been broken. I don't know what the regs are in your state though.

it depends on what I wanted to shoot next.......LOL

It was antlerless when it was tagged.
Last year I heard a guy shot a buck; and when he found it, the antlers had fallen off. I am not sure how he tagged it.

Tough call. I'd consider it an antlered deer, but try convincing the game warden of that. S

[X(] IMO it's a no brainer. Use antlered tag. He saw the rack, took the shot and identified it as his. Same as if one side was missing, a shot was taken and the other sheared off after colliding with a tree. He's the fella that's gotta look himself in the mirror every night. Besides, can't you see a Game Warden saying, "excuse me pardner, do you always carry one side of antlers to do your rattling with"? " Oh, and by the way when you gutted your deer did'nt you notice that double-barrel he was sportin between them hind legs"?

if you want to take a chance on a citation tag it as a buck but why pay the fine. also warden said even if shot as doe if broken antler was over 3 inch would have had t use buck tag did not matter what we thought it was.

Ok first of all the antlers were not broken, they were SHED, not broken SHED which means there were no "three inch stubs" (rcw280). And Jimpok you might not know about rules for WI tags but it is buck or doe, its antler or atlerless, so if a nyb buck was shot, it would be antlerless cuz it has anlters under 3 inches. It has nothing to do with the sex of the deer.

I would have put an antlerless on it if I had one. If not, it wuold have been my either sex.