Taxidermy question

[jaker_cc]

What is everyone’s opinion on fixing broken tines on a mount? Say if you had pictures of a big deer and he broke his g3 off and you want him mounted. Do you mount him how you killed him, or how he was in all his glory in October?? Asking for a friend

[Low Fence]

Just me. I would mount the way I SHOT him. If he broke it running off I might fix it. If I shot a broken buck I don’t feel I would. But I really don’t feel the need to shoot that quality of an animal broken

[solocam_aggie]

Always mount them as I shot them is my rule.

[MAP]

Ive done both, if he has something big broken i would either fix it or not shoot him. Ive killed some big deer that had kickers broken that i did not fix, including one buck with a broken 6" kicker that i left broken.

One thing i will always fix is a browtine, i personally cant stand a mount with a major broken brow.

[DallasCoon12]

I’d fix it, but only if I had good pictures of what he grew that year.

[DaveC]

Put me in the fix it camp.

It might be a lonely camp, but that is where I reside.

[cstrey18]

I wouldn’t shoot a buck with more than a few inches broke. If it’s just a couple of inches I wouldn’t worry about getting it fixed.

[Artos]

It would depend on the deer & circumstances...regardless of what I picked I would have both pics of him pretty & busted up so folks could see the story.

[diamond10x]

It really is up to you. You’re about the only one that’ll know while looking at it on the wall. If I’d have seen the deer before it broke but then when you killed him he was broke, I’d probably get whatever it is fixed.

I have a Mountain Goat at the taxi right now that skinned one side of his face up good and broke a horn when he fell. I wasn’t going to get him mounted because of that but realized by getting him fixed, everyone else who sees it wont know the difference as there weren’t there when I killed it.

[TildenHunter]

If it is a couple inches, I don’t worry about it. If it is a 6” time or something and I know what it was before, back it goes.

[okrattler]

Fixing stuff, yes. Getting it made to where it has extra points, droptines or inches of horn, no.

[mooch]

I usually add a drop tine or two and some trash. Cheaper than feeding protein!

[KX500]

I'm in the 'fix it' camp. And it really isn't to hard to do - antler sculpt is really pretty easy to use, makes for a good winter project. The hard part is painting the rebuilt antler to match the rest.

[bugleboy]

I’ve had one fixed. Typical 12 with almost a perfectly symmetrical rack, but he broke off a brow tine. Luckily, I had his shed from the year before, so I took the brow tine from that shed and used it to replace the missing one. So he actually grew everything that is represented on the mount. It’s all up to you though. Do what you like.

[freerhunter16]

Ive done both, if he has something big broken i would either fix it or not shoot him. Ive killed some big deer that had kickers broken that i did not fix, including one buck with a broken 6" kicker that i left broken.

One thing i will always fix is a browtine, i personally cant stand a mount with a major broken brow.

I agree with this. If they have something big broken we do not shoot them. Pretty much anything broken gets them a pass unless they are extremely old or really exploded that year and we are worried they might not duplicate next year.

A broken brow gets fixed every time. Most others left as is.