Wild deer, injured leg, questions

This is my first post. I am not a deer farmer. I am a taxidermist and a deer hunter. I hope I can glean some valuable information from the knowledgeable people on this forum. I am getting trial cam pics of a mature whitetail. He has a very badly injured back leg. I am not an expert but it seems as if the buck is past the stage of possibly getting infected but maybe not. Looks to be a break that has healed deformed. Seems to be other wise healty. What do you feel the chances of survival are? I understand that if he does survive the injury, he will likely always have an abnormal antler. I would rather harvest the deer with a larger antler if given the opportunity. I don't want to shoot him if I thought he would be bigger next year. Abnormal is fine but I'd rather it be big and abnormal as I harvest only mature whitetail. On that token I don't want to pass him up hoping for him to be bigger next year if he's going to due anyway. I'd rather harvest him like he is than he die and rot. I hope this post is ok and I hope to receive any advice/information/opinions I can. Thanks in advance.

Nobody??

Hey Dustin, Ron here, not always fast answers on here.

coyotes are gonna get him if you pass on him, the injury happened while he was growing the rack. harvest him and put it out of its misery

maybe

weber195 said:

coyotes are gonna get him if you pass on him, the injury happened while he was growing the rack. harvest him and put it out of its misery

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by the looks though I would say he has already made it 5-6 months out there.

and look at the shape he is in, hip and backbones showing and cant run at all

Thanks for the replies.

Take him. It's a win win.

I got new pics of him today. It seems by the pics he may be taking part in the rut or at least trying to. He has broke off the main beam on the weak side.grrrr. One pic he looks to be checking on some does. Fighting? Does? Makes me think he has healed from the injury and is left deformed. Would be cool if he grew a gnarly side next year.

I'd say the injury is old. The deformed antler is the result of the leg injury. The antlers have grown since the injury. yes he will grow a deformed antler each year.
Usually the deformity is on the opposite side to the leg injury.