One side of the story? There is only one side...I left out that he walked under my stand at about 7 am...I had been there since 6am...I have been hunting this area for 20 years and have never seen him before...I grunted at him to let him know I was there...I had to whistle to get him to look up at me...I asked him where he was heading and he said to the next ridge..To my knowledge I am one of the few people who has permission to hunt this peice of land...I have 5 hang-on stands in the area and use my climber when the wind is wrong for the others...

I shot this buck about 15 min after he walked thru...he must have stayed close because from the next ridge he would have to make about a 100 yd shot with a bow...In fact the only stand on the next ridge mine that has been there for about 10yrs...

The part that gets me is that he was so upset that someone else got this deer he was willing to stab a dead deer...I guess he figured that he could not explain stabbing it twice...that would be a great trick to get off two shots with a bow at a pope and young buck...My second from this stand in three years! His flaw was that his arrow only went in about an inch and he hit the shoulder bone, in his haste he also did not realize that I watched him do it from my stand! The deer only went 30yds and head first into a tree...I could see it from my tree! He was on it in about 5 min after my shot..My bet is that he was on the ground and saw the whole thing...I would be upset that I did not get the buck but would congratulate the hunter, not stab a dead deer and claim to have shot it!

Dave