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

I had this same thing happen to me when I was younger (technically not a kid). When I was in college I saw what would have been the 2nd biggest deer of my life cross a field chasing a doe right at daylight (maybe a few min before) and I took the shot. I thought it was about 175 yds but it ended up being 290.

When I shot the deer ran off doing the holding one leg up run like I had heart shot it. I got down went over to where it was and heard another shot from a friend of mine hunting the same property about 500 yds away. We met up and saw where the deer I shot had ran by him when I got down and he killed it. It never crossed my mind to claim that deer, I was just happy he killed it so it didn't suffer and never get recovered.