RE: mauser barks....
No offense buddy, but it kind of sounds like a bunch of kids and a couple old farts just going out and flinging lead...not to mention you went on a hunt with someone you didn't even know and had questionable certainty on his skill and ethics?-i.e. no license and not much of a hunter? By the sound of it, it wouldn't have been a hunt I'd have wanted to be a part of, at least you got your deer out of it.