I think you kind of made your decision by your second post! If it is to relive the memory there is no reason to fix it! A broken tine is part of the memory!

I'd have the taxidermist fix the broken point but make the repair obvious. Maybe just leave the repaired area a slightly different color so you can say this is what he looked like in life, and this is how he looked when I shot him.

... just an idea Tom,


Ron

If you have to ask that in itself might be a good indication to have it fixed.  Heck you can always "unfix" it TJ!  

Tom,

I was just wondering what you decided to do?

Thanks

Charlie

Taxidermist is 7 months out. No need to make a rash decision. Have plenty of time to ponder. He said if I had some sheds to get a tine from thats the best way to do it that way he doesn't have to reproduce the entire point. All he then has to do is put the putty around the connection. He then only has to color a small section.

I happen to have plenty of sheds around so that wouldn't be a problem.

I am still in the same place I was when I started this thread. I am really thinking that I wouldn't mind it either way but I really like the way it looks fixed.

  :confused:

Thanks for the update! You know either way, we will have see pics when you get the mount back.

I would not - but it is up to you - no worry really either way just a personal decision.

Looking forward to seeing the finished mount Tom. Whatever you decide will be the right decision.    


Bill

If it was good enough to shoot that should be how you mount it.

I would personally leave it. Everyone I am sure possesses an analytical mind great enough to visualize what the deer looked like before it broke, so no one needs to be "sold" on the idea that it was an even larger buck before the break. Plus, and this is JUST me, but things like broken tines, funky/junky racks, scarred faces and the like give the deer more individual identitys. Everywhere you turn is a picture-perfect deer hanging on a wall, majestic, large, balanced. They lose the unique quality of each one afer a while. With it missing, that deer has an identity all to himself. But again, everyone is different and no one is wrong. A great buck no matter HOW you go about it, congrats!

QuoteOriginally posted by elkken:
If it was on when I shot it I might fix it, if not I would leave it off because that's the buck I shot.

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I say leave it broken...

That is certainly a "your call" thing.  I did have one repaired in 1988. It was my very last deer that I took with a firearm. Amazingly I had found the site of an epic buck fight in early November and found a large G-2 tine just laying there. I put it in my pack and forgot about it. I rattled in and killed the deer a month later and did not even remember the tine for several weeks after the kill. It was a perfect match. What are the odds of that.