Never Gut-Shoot a Wampus by Winston K. Marks

An interstellar hunting trip with Major Daphne could teach a man a number of lessons. Like being kind to fellow human beings, or --

I'm not exactly broke, but this Major Daphne owned more planets than I do golf balls. Whereas my mining interests were mostly on earth, the Major got in early on the Centaurus grab. A whole generation later, all I could stake out was one hot little hunk of tropical mud that no one else would fool with.