Not trying to nit pick , that's one narly deer leaning on the ugly side. Lol. If its a registered record then it could not have been tampered with , but to me it looks like the taxi split the skull plate and tipped the horns out. Now if he came out on a cut line and I had a poke and a tag there would be know hesitation.
The biggest set of antlers I've ever seen on a live deer belonged to a mulie buck that was hanging out in the state park on the south end of wallowa lake. Although, they might have seemed larger than they really were because he was still in velvet and a foot away from my face. Wish I still had the picture I took on my old flippy phone...