I commend the landowner for offering the coin toss to the trespassers! That's certainly MORE than can be said for many similar situations. Now, I'm a landowner as well (625 acres) and tho I'm familiar with all my neighbors and great friends with one in particular, let me say that I'd honestly want no part of a deer that was truly already seriously wounded across the property line. I WOULD be MORE than pissed by someone just walking onto my property without asking first. If everything else is legit and the deer just had enough stamina to wonder across the line and onto me then I'd be happy to say, "YES come up to my house and we'll go get your deer on MY property". But if I somehow came across the trespassers on MY land, standing over a dead deer... then I wont be so calm and level headed!

(Now for my one neighbor who's a great bud, we text everyday while hunting and keep each other updated on who's where and what was seen, killed etc... We hear each other shoot so we already know whether or not there's possibly a wounded deer on the borders via communication. If we don't have a hunter in that immediate area then "Go on and get it". If we do have a hunter nearby then we'll either wait until that hunt is over or we'll meet up and make sure that hunter has already been made aware of a wounded deer and trackers are in the vicinity so be on the look out!)