[bigheadfred]

This buck deserves his very own hall of fame (and not hanging on a wall)

Too right. You can't eat the horns. But you can't "grill it till you kill it" either.

As a passing thought any atypical buck (hanging on the wall) got that way by surviving all the fights but the last.

[gundog]

Those atypicals all look like they were 1 or 2 years shy of “natural death.” Plenty of offspring out there.