His buck... Sorry guy

I was always raised that it is the persons that got first blood whether it was lethal or not.

He put it down, his deer.
-jake

Dang, there are plenty more out there. I've never seen someone so worried about a rack. I'll bet if it were a doe, you'd be telling the guy its his because he killed it, not you.

his buck, sorry bud

he made the last lethal shot, so his.

I was raised that a deer belonged to the person who drew first blood too. But these days, it's pretty much whoever shot the deer last who owns it.

Like, if you shot a deer, and it ran around for a week, and someone else shoots it and puts it down, it belongs to them. That's kind of extreme, but if you shoot one and it runs 100 yards to someone else and they get another bullet in them and knocks it over dead... It's theirs. Unless you can somehow know which bullet hole was yours and which one was more fatal.

Back home we always just left it up to a coin toss.

It's HIS deer ...not yours ......no biggie....go out and kill a buck for yourself now

SOunds to me that both of you need to get out to the range and practice more. But id say the guy who actually killed it.

You can tell more about lethal shots of a deer after it is skinned if there is any questions. Can't tell anything about this picture that would make me say you had a lethal shot.