Tazman, I can happen on private ground... here's my story.
I was like you, I had heard if this happening but thought I was safe because I hunt private ground.
During Ohio 'lead slinging' season 2 years ago, I had just got done talking with a friend on a ridgetop, telling him where I was heading. I had walked about 20 yards when I here a deer coming through a thicket. It was a decent buck just high loping across the ledge below. My friend was closest and shot once and missed, it came by me and I put it down instantly. We just got to the deer, a nice 9pt just as wide as his ears, and here comes a guy through the thicket onto our private ground. Says he's been tracking that deer all morning. We look to see how many holes are in him and find a spot on the top of his neck that you could put you finger through, no blood. I had shot him through the heart and lungs. This guy starts in with a sob story about how he'd never killed a buck in 30 years and he's a preacher at a church that uses the meat, bla bla bla. I finally told him to just take the deer, hoping to avoid a confrontaion with the local crowd. Private ground but none of us live there, only a cabin (they have been know to mysteriously catch fire after gunseason). Oh well, always more and bigger deer out there, and he has to live with the fact that HE still hasn't killed a buck. I had to do it for him.

TxCowboy, I would hate to guess the number of hunters within 50 yards of each other during Ohio gun season, like nodooze says , a complete "cluster f**k", people out wandering around shooting at everything moving, not caring what's behind or even in front for that matter. Check out http://forum.hunting.net/bbs/topic.a...18&FORUM_ID=29 for a typical day in the Ohio woods during the "annual slug slinging contest".