Ok, say your hunting in the same area. At 9am you get finishing hunting and start walking back to your vehicle. Along the way you find some blood and follow it to a dead deer. After waiting a while and looking around for another hunter if no one is to be found I'm claiming the deer. You can't blame, or anyone else, for it. If, on the way out, someone approaches me claiming the deer I have no problem giving it to them.

I think some conclusions were jumped on pretty fast in this story.