We've got some neighbors that shot some really nice bucks we had on camera that had bust off 10+ inches, some even half of one side of the main beam (20 inches+ on a what couldve been 160 class buck. Sucks to know that but I guess everyone has their reason why they shot it.
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I also agree! When I look up on the wall at my mounts I remember everything about that hunt and kill as it was. Now, if said Buck was in a fight and I saw it happen - broke a tine off and I saw it and retrieved it I would definitely have it repaired! To each their ownOriginally posted by dirtymikesboys View Post
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yea would be cool to have the antler piece that busted off and even just put it on the plaque with the mount.Originally posted by Bucknaked View PostI also agree! When I look up on the wall at my mounts I remember everything about that hunt and kill as it was. Now, if said Buck was in a fight and I saw it happen - broke a tine off and I saw it and retrieved it I would definitely have it repaired! To each their ownComment
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On our place, they get a pass 100% of the time.Comment
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It's completely situational/deer specific for me.
Avatar buck has a broken brow and part of a kicker broken off. I didn't know it when I shot him, but knowing that either of those were broken wouldn't have kept me from shooting him
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2019 I hunted a buck from opening weekend until the last hour of the last hunt of deer season. I misjudged the range and glanced an arrow off his leg just underneath him in October. He was a fighter historically, and busted his G5 and the end of his beam off around the last week of the season. It took me 43 hunts to kill him and I wasn't passing him when he came in on the last day
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I've killed a lot of management deer that are broken up. No problems there.
We have a buck this year that was one of the top hitlisters going into season but he broke his G2 off at the beam very early on. I wouldn't shoot him now.
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I've got two backyard bucks that had extra points
On their beams,They were broke off the day after they came out of velvet,was a month before bow season.Just sayin,its hard to know what's gonna happen.Comment
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On a trophy buck I pass, on a cull it don’t matterComment
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Anything more than half of a browtine gets a free pass until the next year.
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Long as I have history with a deer, I repair brows and portions of G4s & 5s that break off incidentally. Had a broke main beam with G3 reconstructed once. Didn’t match what was there originally so I didn’t care for it. Won’t do that again. Now I have too many on the wall to remember which ones were repaired and which ones weren’t. Moot point.Comment
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I wish some of our buck would get busted up, so maybe they would have a chance to survive another year.Comment
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Depends. I let this one go when he broke off his beam. The neighbor did take a shot at him last year but missed. I do have a picture from him this year so he made it.
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Originally posted by sideways View Post
X2…the taxidermist is your friend.
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Definitely situational for me. Age, score, history, camera data, and what is broke all play a part in the decision for me. Last year I killed a mid 170's deer that had almost 12 inches of points busted off. The weird part was he broke a part of a lot of tines and not a whole tine anywhere.
That is the worst busted one I ever killed and I don't mind him now that I had him repaired to his former glory.
My rule is present him as he grew it.Comment
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I think it would depend on numerous factors for me.Comment
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