Just the kinda of thing that ruins it

I've seen many ranchers, farmers, and ranch hands see dead cattle from the county rd and emediatly claim they had been shot. Upon inspection the overwhelming majority of the time there is no evidence of gunshot wounds, even when peeling the hide back. Usually bloat or some other rational reason. Black leg, beef crawled into trap with no water or got into fields with no water and hunters shut gates unaware of a few head being in there without access to water. Some where never found out why. Tumor maybe or heart worms or who.knows. I've seen lot of part time ranchers leave the neating on round bails and I've seen big healthy bulls dead and autopsy reveals a huge mass of hay neating in the stomach that wasn't able to pass out of the stomach and eventually killed an otherwise perfectly healthy bull. I've seen cattle die of antoplasmosis that looked healthy. I've seen them get fever and pneumonia and die. I spent my childhood on 20, 000 acre cow and calf operation and worked for other ranches and friends with other ranchers and ranch hands. I've seen a lot. Most accusations claiming gun shot weren't even inspected. People like to have something to bitch about. Most of these fine investigators accusing death as a result of gunshot never found anything proving gunshot but went on to believe in there heart of hearts their beef died because of the recklessness of hunters yet would never put forth the effort to peel the hide back when the evidence wasn't evident.
In some cases cattle were indeed shot but most cases the only thing shot was the supporting evidence that was needed to prove the accusation.