Of course it was bucks-only at the time. We decided to check it in so that it wouldn't go to waste, and hope that the fresh wounds at the base of the horns would bail us out. You were right to write about it. Those kind of situations need to be brought to light. Everything isn't black and white.
Ethics sometimes cross the letter of the law, and sometimes accidents do happen.
Some people have a lot of nerve, you just never know. The boy had killed a small buck with two rounds of buckshot. The third round was still in his gun. It was his first deer ever and he was pretty excited, and neither of us thought to unload his gun. No mercy that day either.