RE: If you could, would you?
Maybe not legal but if a buddy or I were hunting together and one of us had already shot a buck then either of us would be willing to tag another buck they shot with our tag. Of course they had better shoot a trophy buck because nobody would want to give up their buck tag so somebody else could shoot a forker or something.
I guess you could say it's a misplaced sense of right and wrong but if I had already shot a buck and a Pope & Young buck walked by I would shoot it and get my buddy to tag it but if we had both used our buck tags I would let it walk. I guess it's the party hunting mentality I grew up with and being new to bowhunting haven't adapted but if we've got tags to fill we're going to fill them.