NO, it should only count as a "Pick Up". When found there was no recognizable proof it had even been shot. Just that it was dead. I don't care how truthful everyone thinks the guy is. It's a matter of a broken chain of events. Searched for and abandoned, someone else found "A" dead deer. He says it's the one he shot but the carcass is destroyed past the point of proving that. Sorry for him if it's the same one... but that's the way I see it.