would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
#41
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SC USA
Posts: 1,434
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
Where does it end ?
Unless you have game tracker pictures of it.......you can't say for sure what that tine looked like !
If someone finds a buck a month after they shoot it...........should you just throw on another cape .........mount it and call it a successful hunt ?
To me..........your freezing a moment in time !! You can either do it like it really was..........or you can do it how you wish it would've been !! Your the one that has to live with that !
Unless you have game tracker pictures of it.......you can't say for sure what that tine looked like !
If someone finds a buck a month after they shoot it...........should you just throw on another cape .........mount it and call it a successful hunt ?
To me..........your freezing a moment in time !! You can either do it like it really was..........or you can do it how you wish it would've been !! Your the one that has to live with that !
#42
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: East Yapank NY USA
Posts: 3,457
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
To me..........your freezing a moment in time !! You can either do it like it really was..........or you can do it how you wish it would've been !! Your the one that has to live with that !
Would you tell him:
No leave it at 19 because I want to save a moment in time
or
Do you let him show that huge buck the way he was in peak rut?
#43
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SC USA
Posts: 1,434
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
Rack........To be honest.........I'd european mount it ! But that's a very good/strong point !!
But where does someone draw the line ? If someone kills a late season mature buck with broken tines and small neck..........do you repair it.... swell it up and pass it off as what you truely killed to your friend's ?
If one of these guys shoots one and finds it months later .....varmit damaged and no cape ..........is it fine to take it to a good taxidermist and have him make it look like what he thinks it should've been in it's prime ? Then strut around telling everyone to come look at his trophy ?
It's a personal preference..........just not what I'd do ! But you made me think real hard !
But where does someone draw the line ? If someone kills a late season mature buck with broken tines and small neck..........do you repair it.... swell it up and pass it off as what you truely killed to your friend's ?
If one of these guys shoots one and finds it months later .....varmit damaged and no cape ..........is it fine to take it to a good taxidermist and have him make it look like what he thinks it should've been in it's prime ? Then strut around telling everyone to come look at his trophy ?
It's a personal preference..........just not what I'd do ! But you made me think real hard !
#44
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Palmyra PA USA
Posts: 292
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
No way, wouldn't think of it! I like to remember them as I killed them. A broken point shouldn't diminish your admiration or enjoyment of the mount. If anything, it should add some mystique! I have a shoulder mount and several antler plaques that have broken tines. It's always neat to wonder what fight they might have been in or what accident may have occured that caused them to break a point.
#46
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
I fully support Fixing Horns and Boob Jobs
Sure it ain't real - Just a whole lot better to look at
Sure it ain't real - Just a whole lot better to look at
You Da Man!
When a good looking, enhanced female walks into the local watering hole, she gets a the full attention of all the bucks in the place. Even if they already have a doe at their side.
#47
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SHEPHERD MI USA
Posts: 55
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
I would leave it as is. It will look natural. Deer break antlers in fights, etc. Who knows? You may have the golden glove whitetail champ on your wall? I shot a dandy 8 this year with one that was broken/rubbed off. It was trying to be a 10. I left it. Just got him back and he looks great......EXACTLY like he did when I saw him in the crosshairs.
Nice buck!
Nice buck!
#48
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 201
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
PL,
I shot a buck this year almoast identical to that, g2 on the same side broken off with about the same amount of stub left, didnt know until i shot it.
Personally im fixing mine because i want to be able to look at the deer every day just as i saw him in the summer and early october, (i got him in early nov). JMO
I shot a buck this year almoast identical to that, g2 on the same side broken off with about the same amount of stub left, didnt know until i shot it.
Personally im fixing mine because i want to be able to look at the deer every day just as i saw him in the summer and early october, (i got him in early nov). JMO
#49
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New York
Posts: 120
RE: would you "fix" a broken point on a buck you shot ?
I think as long as your not adding the tine to gain more scoring points why not, Its your trophy do what you feel you need to do to reprecent the deer the way you want to see it.