I feel just asbad for you as the rest. What he did was a crock of crap.

But like somebody else said, if that was in Illinois and you trespassed to get that deer and the guy pressed charges...the CPO would take your deer. Legally speaking I need permission to cross the property line to retrieve any deer that falls on another property. If they don't grant it, you can call the Department, but all that they can do is to urge the land owner to let you have the animal. If they refuse...oh well. They can leave it there to rot if they want.

I am going to take the opposite stance as most here. If you knew that there are issues with this guy and that this had a chance at happening, why would you set up where he can watch you from his house. Yes, I read where you said the deer use that area. Every time you hunted that area you took a chance at this happening. Now that it happened you want to try and get even with him and keep the tensions between you even higher.

Why not be the bigger man, go and knock on his door. Applogize for the events of the prior morning and see what can be done to see that it won't happen again. If he is anti hunting maybe he would agree to let you on his property for the deer if that deer was donated to hunter feeding the hungry or something. Show him that hunters aren't as bad as he may think. You retaliate and you only make his view of hunters worse.