I hunt a 10 acre wood patch that borders a soy field. 200 yards across the field there is a swamp. We do not have permission to be in the the field or swamp and the adjoining land owner is a real piece of work. A few years back they were out in their swamp during gun season and one of the poach brothers unloaded a 12 ga. at a decent buck, he totally missed anything that would resemble a kill shot. One shot grazed the top of the neck and the other shot in the lower back leg. The deer ran across the soy field and into our 10 acre woods where my friend, the landowner, brought it down with a single shot from a .50 cal muzzleloader.
Upon hanging the deer in the barn he noticed the couple scratches this other idiot put on it, I do mean scratches. Anyways, a couple hours later the swamp poachers show up and tell my friend that it is their deer. My friend being the nice man that he is and also a bit of a smart a$$ says they can have it if they can tell him where on the animal it was shot. The guy that shot at this deer had actually shot at it from the opposite side of which the actual kill shot was. The guy in the poach party got mad and called the DNR here in Michigan. A couple of the poach party guys decided to leave at this point, probably convicted felons with no rights or licenses to be hunting.
Anyways, the DNR Officer came and inspected the deer, listened to the blah blah of first blood and awarded the deer to my friend who had placed the only kill shot on the animal.

I do not know what would happen legally in the bowhunting world if their was indeed a double kill shot. Meaning 2 arrows to the vitals. Morally, should belong to the first hunter with vital shot placement.

Sorry about the hostility to the POACH party but, that's what they do. A couple years ago the DNR took a combine fromone of themfor shooting deer from it with a 7MM and out of season and also in a shotgun zone.......