I agree with what you said under "normal" conditions Ampa......but we gave this deer that I thought I had hit, good....nearly 3 hours. I was afraid to wait any more.....because of the coming front. We got rained on about 2.5 hrs into our search. We'd lost the blood trail (it ran out)a long time before that.

We had to make a decision (wait on deer......wait on rain). We made the right one, in this instance. It stopped raining THIS morning (nearly33 straight hours).

Jeff