The law is "Whoever dispatchs (applys the final shot) the animal is his and he will tag it. Anything else is party hunting and is illegal. I have had situations where more than one person has shot a "trophy" animal and the game warden &sheriff were called in to settle the matter. They said "Whoever dispatched the animal is his" In this case the second hunter found the wounded animal while the first hunter was tracking him. I was the first hunter and made a good shot thru the lungs and it was a 300 class bull elk. He had gone about two hundred yards and was bedded down. I didn't even know the other hunter was there. The Law supercedes Ethics in most cases.
