re: Two Hunters Shoot the Same Buck, Owner Decided with Coin Toss

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What do you think of people using dogs to recover deer that had a bad shot on them? Isn't that kind of the same thing?

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were that shot and killed by someone else? If so, that would suck.

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What do you think of people using dogs to recover deer that had a bad shot on them? Isn't that kind of the same thing?

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Not necessarily. Typically, people who use dogs to recover deer, and actually find the deer, it was a good enough shot to actually kill the deer, even though it ran, say 200+ yards. The shot the kid put on that deer was in the leg, and if that land owner did not shoot the deer than it would have died much later due to infection in the leg, with a much lesser chance of recovering the animal before the meat spoils.

The land owner shouldn't have been mad for the kid taking a shot on the deer. If I were him, I would have at least caped the deer and given the head and cape to the kid, maybe offer some of the meat.