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

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That said I have also taken deer in the past just to put them out of their misery from horrendous gun wounds.

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You will love this story. Probably 20 years ago in Tensas on doe war day. Three of us walked in together. We got on a ridge and just all got on same ridge, probably 1/4 mile apart, looking over a bottom.

I hear ALOT of shooting, then a few doe feed out. I shoot one, she runs and I see her fall. Climb down, go get her, drag her under tree, sitting at base of tree I hear crashing and here come a line of deer, the last one has a front leg hanging by the hide...I chamber one and shoot her.

Shortly after, here comes another gimp, blood up high on shoulder and holding its rear leg in the air walking on three. I shoot him.

Here I am with three dead deer. My partners come up with one dead deer. While we were out in bottom we see orange come in tracking a deer. A dude walks right down the path I shot the little buck comes out in bottom and asks if we saw a deer come thru. I said yes, and pointed to the buck and said this is your deer. He came up to the buck and said 'nope, mine was a lot bigger'

he and his buddy turn around and leave! We don't even say a word. Just stare at each other.

We had no idea what to do, so we took all four to edge of road, it was cold, so we left the buck there under some palmettos. Ended up driving back over and picked up the deer the next day, got scared to try to pass it off as that days deer and just left refuge without checking it in.

Still remember it like yesterday.