I'm not condoning stealing deer, or anything for that matter, the thought of somebody knowingly taking a deer they didn't shoot a day, an hour, or even minutes after it was killed is just blood curdling. However, to play devil's advocate, how many of you would tag and keep a deer you found with no evidence of a blood trail to back track, and no other hunters in the area? Assuming you could tell it was fresh and the weather was cool and the meat was still good, and there was an obvious bullet/arrow wound so you knew the deer didn't die from sickness, would you be able to just let that deer rot in the woods? I know there are a lot of us on here that would try our hardest to back track the trail to find the original shooter, just as diligent if not moreso than if it were our own deer, but what if that comes up empty? I'm not saying it's ok to take a deer that could easily be found by the original shooter, but who's to say that some of the instances of people taking a deer weren't just hunters trying to salvage an animal they thought to be abandoned?