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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 529638" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>My take on dealing with a wounded game animal, is recover them using the best strategy that fits the individual circumstances. Sometimes this will mean letting the animal set so the hunter can follow the blood trail up to a dead animal. The circumstances can be so different. Sometimes it's raining, sometimes it's not. Sometime's there's drifting snow, sometimes there's not. Sometimes the animal will spoil if left overnight (largely dependent on the size of the game animal and the temperature), sometimes it won't. </p><p></p><p>I archery hunted the first 13 years of my hunting career. On marginal hits, the more successful method for retrieving the animal was to let it set for several hours, because there would generally be a good blood trail up to the first bedding location. But after bedding down and laying still for awhile, the external wounds would clot and the animal wouldn't leave a blood trail after it was jumped out of its first bed. So it was very difficult to follow the animal, lacking any blood trail after the animal was pushed out of its first bedding location. Therefore we'd let the animal lay and cross your fingers that after several hours passed and you did take up the trail and encounter the game animal, that internal bleeding would have been sufficient to result in death, or at least the ability to close the distance to a delirious animal and finish it off.</p><p></p><p>If the animal was still healthy enough to jump up and run off after several hours in its first bed, then the odds were good that it might survive anyhow - unless it was gut shot.</p><p></p><p>On a gut shot animal struck with an arrow, leaving the animal lay overnight isn't a bad option - if rain isn't in the forecast, if the temperature isn't deadly hot, and if bears and/or coyotes are unlikely to destroy the animal prior to morning. Because after the animal is pushed out of its first bed, you're unlikely to have any blood trail to follow for purposes of retrieving the animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 529638, member: 4191"] My take on dealing with a wounded game animal, is recover them using the best strategy that fits the individual circumstances. Sometimes this will mean letting the animal set so the hunter can follow the blood trail up to a dead animal. The circumstances can be so different. Sometimes it's raining, sometimes it's not. Sometime's there's drifting snow, sometimes there's not. Sometimes the animal will spoil if left overnight (largely dependent on the size of the game animal and the temperature), sometimes it won't. I archery hunted the first 13 years of my hunting career. On marginal hits, the more successful method for retrieving the animal was to let it set for several hours, because there would generally be a good blood trail up to the first bedding location. But after bedding down and laying still for awhile, the external wounds would clot and the animal wouldn't leave a blood trail after it was jumped out of its first bed. So it was very difficult to follow the animal, lacking any blood trail after the animal was pushed out of its first bedding location. Therefore we’d let the animal lay and cross your fingers that after several hours passed and you did take up the trail and encounter the game animal, that internal bleeding would have been sufficient to result in death, or at least the ability to close the distance to a delirious animal and finish it off. If the animal was still healthy enough to jump up and run off after several hours in its first bed, then the odds were good that it might survive anyhow - unless it was gut shot. On a gut shot animal struck with an arrow, leaving the animal lay overnight isn’t a bad option - if rain isn’t in the forecast, if the temperature isn’t deadly hot, and if bears and/or coyotes are unlikely to destroy the animal prior to morning. Because after the animal is pushed out of its first bed, you’re unlikely to have any blood trail to follow for purposes of retrieving the animal. [/QUOTE]
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