Why would anyone want a deer that someone else had shot? If it's an absoutely superificial wound the MAYBE, I would claim it. You're just admitting that you are not only second fiddle to that guy but that you weren't good enough to figure out where the deer was going to be and that you can't kill a deer without someone else wounding it to slow it down for you. Sometimes deer are dead on their feet but still running. What did you do to shoot again? You killed a deer that was already dying. You're just a deer thief as far as I am concerned. That finishing shot crap is a bunch of bull. It may be the law but it's definitely not what a gentleman or a sportsman would do. Anyone that would want to claim a deer like that needs to re-evaluate why they are hunting. If someone else shoots a deer first, they were the better man that day. Be a man and congradulate them and tell them so.