[eyefromthesky]

If you shot a state record buck in any category would you sell the antlers to Cabelas for $25,000?

 

[JTman]

Absolutely, I'd have a replica mount made for myself though. Can't take em with ya.

 

[Adam K]

Same here, but I would have them pay for the replica too

 

[hunter4095]

i would have more fun with a replica and 25,000 bucks

 

[eyefromthesky]

Can't take em with ya.

You can't take 25k with ya either.

If I ever got to the point where I couldn't hunt and I was sitting there looking at the mount, somehow I think I'd feel better knowing I was looking at the real thing as opposed to a piece of plastic.

 

[timberghostacres]

voted yes on the 25,000 and it would also include a replica mount of the deer.

timber

 

[doubleT]

For me it would be keeping the original so I could hand it down to my son, and that is taking it with you

 

[Guest3]

I'd sell the rack in a heartbeat. $25K pays a fair amount of college tuition, and to heck with the replica! If they offer me a replica, my reply would be to give me the extra cash.

I'll photograph my deer, hang that on the wall in a nice $20 frame, and keep my cost below $30.

 

[repsagA29]

$25000 would be a nice down payment on land for my family to enjoy for generations. Besides, they could walk into any Cabels's and brag,"that one right there....my dad shot that one"!

 

[pabuckkiller]

I would take the 25,000 and the replica. The original rack be gone but you still have the memories, the deer's likeness to hang on your wall, and 25,000.

 

[eyefromthesky]

Well we all know how Dude is going to vote.

 

[jim stemler]

25,000=new rifle+hunting trip=hapiness

 

[Hawken]

+1

 

[Peppy]

No way!! That money wouldn't last as long as you think and then you'd have no money and a hunk of plastic.

Now for life changing money... maybe.

 

[JTman]

$25000 would be a nice down payment on land for my family to enjoy for generations. Besides, they could walk into any Cabels's and brag,"that one right there....my dad shot that one"!

Exactly..... and I'd be braggin all the time about how the mount on my wall is a replica, while the original is on display at Cabela's.

 

[adudeuknow]

Well we all know how Dude is going to vote.

sure do!!! i make enough trips to cabelas that i would be able to see it all of the time anyways! seems i am far from alone....

 

[Peppy]

And all Cabelas big historical bucks are replicas anyways.

 

[adudeuknow]

those 300+ inch deer that are in every cabelas are out of this world.

those originals would sell for just a little more than 25k...more along the lines of a "life-changing" amount.

 

[bigbluefish]

I'm with you guys...Give me the 25K, a replica and one other thing....an opportunity to tell/write my story in Outdoor Life and/or Field and Stream. That buck could launch a new career for this ol'buck!

 

[adudeuknow]

if you shoot a pa state record you will be in magazines for sure....mike nicola had a nice article in north american whitetail and a few others...i still have the NA whitetail issue he was in.