Older target bucks rack is broken, pass or kill?

[Stanley]

I would pass him up for sure. If the rack inst the trophy, just that animal, then why stop hunting him when he sheds, if season is still open?

I like that thought process.

[headgear]

Tough call, I might shoot but I can't say for sure. Probably a last second 50/50 choice. Sometimes those busted racks add charater and I would still consider him a heck of a trophy.

[RaisedByWolves]

I would give him the shaft, unless he was still young and has potential to be bigger next year....UPbowhunter, your avatar is hilarious

[VA5326]

Pass. There's always next year.

[Stanley]

Pass with out a doubt

Me too, and I did.

[Stanley]

Pass. There's always next year.

Or two years later even.

[RaisedByWolves]

Pass. There's always next year.

Or two years later even.

Unless someone else shoots him

[BigHunt]

Pass. There's always next year.

Or two years later even.

Unless someone else shoots him

or the winter takes him

[Stanley]

Pass. There's always next year.

Or two years later even.

Unless someone else shoots him

Actually, I passed a buck that had one side busted off in 07. He didn't show up in 08. I took a friend hunting in 09 and he arrowed the buck, both sides intact (153 5/8 6.5 years old).

[Stanley]

Pass. There's always next year.

Unless someone else shoots him

or the winter takes him

Or he gets struck by lightning.

[tim]

i think i would pass, now if he had his entire frame but some tines were broke he would get it, i shot a buck a few years ago that was by far the biggest bodied buck i have ever shot he was a monster. his rack had almost every tine broke except the g2's even the end of one beam was broken. the rack was nothinthe real bad part was i have no picture of his massive bodyg to write home about but he looked super cool that way and it all happened very fast. i dont regret shooting him, i put a bad hit on him and nevrer found him in season, after many sleeples nights i just knew he died, everyone thought i was crazy when i said i will find him, i found him 600 yards from the shot in the spring months later. the part that still sucks is loosing all that meat and not getting a pic of that massive body, he was rutted up and looking for a fight. when i see bucks all busted up i know they are (or think they are), the bull of the woods that makes em special to me......on another note i will never repair a deer i shoot he is how he is and im not changing no matter the size.....

[tim]

i take that back, i would repair a cracked skull plate or if the antlers popped off at late season, i wont manufacture tines to have one repaired......

[GRFox]

.......or he gets sucked up in a tornado.

[BigHunt]

.......or he gets sucked up in a tornado.

...........or a hurrican or earthquake

[Rutnstrut]

5 years ago there was a 7.5+ year old buck I was hunting, he didn't have much for tine length or width but was massive, gnarly and smart. He kicked my but 99% of the time, but on one late season bowhunt I had him broadside at 15yds. The only problem was he had shed his left side already. I let him walk and never saw him again, I would do the same thing again.