Fighting Over Bucks?

[mudbrook]

Fighting Over Bucks?
 I just read an old true story about 2 guys (apparently strangers and damn sure hunting way too close to one another) who saw an 8-pointer, shot it at basically the same time and ran over to claim it. Indeed, there were 2 slug holes in the deer.

The guys started fussing and each tried to drag the buck toward his truck. One dude lost it and cold-cocked the other. There was dispute as to whether he used the butt of his shotgun or his fist, but in any event, the loser got his jaw broke. The attacker got 60 days in the slammer and was ordered to pay medical bills.

That jogged my memory to an ugly incident of my own. A few years ago one of my buddies shot a buck that ran across a fence and died on posted property. We called the landowner and he grudgingly gave us permission to track it.

We soon found the 8-pointer—2 guys were gutting it!

I said, “Er, fellas that’s our deer.”

more.. http://mikehanback.blogs.com/bigbuckzone/2007/03/fighting_over_b.html
http://www.wisconsinoutdoor.com/whitetail.htm

[Bukmastr]

I shot a real nice 6 pointer last year gun season. It scored in the 130's as a 6... Really.
Anywho, it ran out into a field after I shot it and I shot it again. My 1st shot was at 10 yards standing broadside with a twelve gage. I could see the impact on the chest. The second shot was while it was running directly away and hit it in the leg. Another guy took a couple wild shots at it when it hit the field, that I am quite sure did not connecgt... He ran after the deer and he was closer when the deer went down and I had to climb down from a blind. He shot the dead buck about 4 times when he got up to it and yelled.. GOT HIM.  When I got over there he argued about it bein g his buck, stating that he watched me miss every shot. I pointed out the shot thru the top of the back indicationmg it was shot from above. He just cl;aimed it was his. The DNR happerned to be watchinmg on the hill, and came down in there truck and even though two other hunters that I did not know told them they saw me shoot the buck, they gave it to the butt head. He was the 1st to tag it. I did not argue... Just left deerless.