While the story very well may be true (I don't know), I would caution against spreading ill will against a fellow hunter like Mike. Everything I've ever read about the gentleman points to him being first class, and without knowing for sure, I would give him the benefit of the doubt.

Don Higgins devotes a whole chapter to the jealousy that arises in the hunting community when someone takes a big deer in his recent book... At this point, I'd have to wonder if that's not what's happening here.