In the same token if you were blood trailing a deer and were deep in a forest or on a mountain,area's where there was clearly no possibility of harming some oneelse, you are telling me upon comingupon the animal in a similar situation you would sit or camp by the animal and let it's suffering be prolonged,or mark it's location to come back to it in the morning?
First off........ how do you know for certain the deer is even fatally wounded? How do you know the deer wouldn't live to see another day? What ever happened to determing the type of hit on the deer? What ever happened to letting the deer bed down to expire? Why would you go chase a wounded deer in the first place? Because it's getting dark? Have someplace to go?
If a marginal shot was made on a deer at last light why not wait 4-6 hours and start tracking? If the deer is fatally wounded it will expire (most times within 300 yards). If not it will be wounded (unfortunately-shame on hunter for bad shot-part of hunting sometimes). If you go after the deer you may jump it and have it run 2 counties to never find it not knowing if it's dead or alive.
If that deer was fatally woundedlaying there bedded down and they went back 4 hours later (on the safe side) it would be in that same spot dead. My question is........ what if it wasnt' fatally wounded? What if it was wounded? Would it live and heal to see another day? Deer are resilient creatures. I guess we'll never know. If the deer wasn't fatally wounded and the second shot at night was fatal then guess what that is? Why have to find out? When in doubt...............back out.