Darwin awards due here.
Staying alive rule #1: Don't argue over a tree stand with an armed man who is hostile.
When I took my hunter's safety course almost fifty years ago, the instructors several times cautioned the class about running across armed strangers hunting in the woods.
We were advised, for example, that if you're approaching the carcass of an animal you shot, and a stranger suddenly emerges from the brush to say it's his kill, you don't argue with him--you just say, OK, and get out of there.