Ok, here's what happened. The guy who almost ran it over lives about a mile from where the buck was laying. So he rode home real quick and grabbed his bow to put it out of it's misery. He put a perfect shot on it and it ran about 10 yards and collapsed. Hereis the weird part. When the bucked jumped up half of it's rack fell off. When it collapsed the other side came off. This deerwas so bad that my buddy didn't even attempt to save the meat. The smell was putrid.
Thanks for all the responses. I just wanted to see were I stood in the general consensus on what was right. I know what was donemay be illegal, so I won't even post what state it was in. It was a awsome buck for where it was.But in this situation I believe that what was morally and ethically right was the right choice.
Here's a pic of the rack.