First blood claims the animal. A gut shot animal is a a recoverable animal to a good woodsman. If another hunt puts in the effort and correctness to follow up on their hit and comes to the animal by all means they've earned it and I say congrat's to that hunter. I'd say I dispatched the animal and it's a good thing I did for your tracking early would have bumped the animal...a quick lecture and I'd be on my way. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

<font color=blue>Good Luck and Good Shooting</font id=blue>

<font color=red>Rob</font id=red>