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My group " party hunts" legally, so who " gets it" doesnt really matter. We split all the meat. The only problem I could see with this situation is if there was a big rack. Then we' d probably flip a coin, or see who shoots better at the given range, you can always find a paper-plate!;)

The neighbours gut-shot a whitetail last year and it hopped the fence, it was finished off on our property. We have an agreement to allow each other to go after game on the others property. A member of my group put the killing shot into it,, but it was given to the neighbour. In my experience the gut shot ones taste a little funny! [:o]

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Bullfeathers! " The first one to fire a fatal shot" ...........what a load of crap. About 20% of animals are shot fatally, but never recovered. If another feller drops a wounded animal, I say the first feller' s got no claim to the meat. Let ' im learn to use thet $1000 rifle an' scope combo, or load it with some proper ammo. Be innerestin' to see if the same fellers makin' all these bull crappy rules are the same ones toutin' weak, unner-sized bullets for big game. ' Course, they' ll say they never lose animals ' cause they " place their shots" . Yall got more rules an' sayins than any bunch of bullcrappers I' ve seed!

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Beaver: Man you can be a grouch at times. Try to be nice. Its the least you could do for makeing us put up with your crappy ass spelling and unsubstanciated facts and figures.

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Unsubstansheeated? Thet' s what you call the las 40 odd years I spent traipsin' the hills for critters on nuthin' but jerky an' water? Totin' pink asses ' round with me the las' 15 or so, so they could reclaim their manhood an' unplug their concrete-laden brain pans? I will try to be nice, but it ain' t natural fer me, you gotta unnerstand. Hell, ifn you knowed my grandaddy, you' d not only think I was a generous, saintly man, but also a fine talker too!

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beaverjack-You lived on water and jerky you say?So you are now using malnutrition as well as your ancestry as an excuse for you being a rude know it all S.O.B. that can' t spell.

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I teach Bowhunting Education and we tell everyone about the " Unwritten Law of The Bowhunter" . This goes as follows.........


" The first hunter to place their arrow in a vital area of an animal causing a sufficient trail to be followed, and thus having a good chance of bringing the animal to their possession (were it not for the presence of other hunters) may claim the animal as theirs. If the hunter feels that he would not have been able to find the animal due to the superficial nature of the wound, or other circumstances, he should relinquish his claim of the animal to the other hunter involved in making the true vital hit. "

Understand this is the " unwritten law" and some states (like here in IL) only honors the animal as whos tag is on it. So, you could walk out in the woods with just a tag and put it on a animal and this would be legally yours (as long as you can legally hunt there).

I know one thing. Any animal is not worth getting killed over. Every year i hear stories of people arguing, fighting, and getting guns pointed at them. Also I personally would not want a animal that someone else killed.

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What Bigbulls said........

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BeaverJack; you box-a-rocks, whut kina critters u got out ger that u coud tote my pink ass afta?:D I' m serious. Do you guide for bowhunters? Or would I have to explain that we need to get a little closer than your used to? I think it be a hoot to share a campfire with your grumpy ass. Busy this fall? What you chasing? Email me some info. Draws? Over the counter? Elk? Deer? Just in Wy.? What you got? :D

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In your scenario, I' m going to say the other hunter gets it. In Kansas, we' re taught to hunt by a code of " First blood and Mortal wound" . If you would have inflicted a mortal wound, but 200yrds later while it' s staggering, someone else shoots it, you get it, since you were the first blood. However, if you tag it in the arse, and it runs two miles bleeding heavily even, and someone esle drops it in its tracks, he gets it, because he inflicted the mortal wound.

Basically, if his shot drops them fast, and you' ve been tracking it, you have to check where the holes are, if both are in the vital area, then it' s yours, if one is in the vital area, it was likely his shot since the deer dropped right away for his, so he inflicted the mortal wound, so Kansas considers it that you never shot the deer, and he harvested it.

It' s pretty much a " who was the better shot" , and if you were both good shots, it' s a " who shot first" contest. Drop them where you hit them and you won' t have this problem though.

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Sorry nub,
I' m all booked up fer this fall. You gotta draw to chase elks in WY. Apps due in January fer non-residential types.