busted antlers

r270 · Nov 12, 2009

I read on here many times about shooting an animal with broke or busted up antlters, and then there is talk about getting the antlers fixed.....I am having a little trouble with the fixing part, if the animal was good enough to shoot all broke up why not be proud of it as is .There is no way to tell for sure how long each point should be anyway and then it just not the same !!!! not trying to make anybody mad just my opinion

hornkiller · Nov 12, 2009

i left mine the way i killed him! "07 otc open bull"

archeryguru · Nov 12, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Nov-12-09 AT 09:28AM (MST)[p]I say keep it the way it is. Be proud of it and dont worry about what other people say. My bull utah bull from two years ago was missing its entire left sword, but remains like that. ive never been more proud of any bull than that one.

archeryguru

Abomb · Nov 12, 2009

To each his own. Sweet blog.

30buck · Nov 12, 2009

to each his own is right. I say fix em, why not the animal grew them. Especially if you have pic's of the animal before and can make the accurate.

oakbrush · Nov 12, 2009

I think that if they are going to be displayed, they need to displayed in thier full glory and give them the beauty that they did indeed grow themselves.

a3dhunter · Nov 12, 2009

The only way I would have the antlers fixed is if they were broken after I had shot the animal, as the animal crashed through the woods or as it fell. Otherwise, leave the animal as it was when you walked up on it.

r270 · Nov 12, 2009

Even with trail cams how many times do you have a picture of an animal that you kill that you can get measurements off of to create an antler that is broke off? I would not do the antler fix . I like them the way they are.

sageman · Nov 15, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-09 AT 05:40PM (MST)[p]Mount them as they are. IMHO

hntbambi · Nov 15, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-09 AT 08:14PM (MST)[p]If you are paying for the taxidermy, you get to call the rules. It's up to the person paying the bill.

I have a hard enough time justifying a mount but to mount something all busted up is not something I would do. But that's me.

Califelkslayer · Nov 15, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-09 AT 08:32PM (MST)[p]i guess I agree with 2 differing opinions.

3D thinks like I do. If he got broke AFTER I shot him, I'd get em fixed because thats what I decided to shoot.

Can't argue with hntbambi either cause you are the one paying the bill. I just wouldn't do it.

fatrooster · Nov 15, 2009

I think its up to the individual who shot the animal. In 2005 I got my first elk tag and shot a 6x6 bull but when I got to him he had broken off one side of his antlers after the 4th point. I looked all over the place trying to find the broken piece but he had rolled down a steep brushy mountain about 80 yards and I just could not find it. When I inspected the broken antler I could see that he had a clean break and only a 1" x 1/4" section holding it in place before he lost it which is funny because I watched this bull raking a tree and sparring with another bull before I shot him and he never broke it off. So I shot him as a 6x6 and decided to mount him as a 6x6. My first bull tag, first bull and first mounted bull. fatrooster.

deerbedead · Nov 15, 2009

I'd fix it every time. Why look at something that's messed up?

arrowone4me · Nov 16, 2009

Fix them, enlarge and frame a kill photo, and place it on the wall next to the mounted bull. Now you have both.

mdbrown · Nov 17, 2009

i e-mailed some pictures of my busted up bull this year to fatrooster , maybe he will put a few of them on here, i cant get it to load pictures for me.