How are gas well tenders "trespassing"? Their company would had to have purchased a right of way in order to drill, or excercised their mineral rights at the least, so they weren't trespassing. I agree with those who said that the buck could have been shot somewhere else, especially with your description of the hit site. IAhuntr is probably right about the game law violation you may have committed by taking the rack and not reporting it too.

Now who's the "poacher"?