dead heads and sheds are cool to find and I'd pack a good one out a long ways out. If I found a fresh one with an arrow in it, that looked like it was there a long time I'd probably assume someone had lost it permanently and pack it out too. Im sure almost all of us would, I'm also sure that almost all of us would return it to the shooter if we knew who it was.
It does bring up the question of "first blood" though doesn't it? If a fellow wounds a deer in a non mortal way and the second shooter hits it mortally...it belongs to the second guy. If the deer was mortally wounded before being shot again it belongs to the first shooter. I think anyone would agree, this deer was killed by one arrow and belongs to the first shooter..... Unless someone found it wounded and the meat was beyond salvaging and they took the head, that's conjecture though.
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