This should answer your question, 4 yrs ago on opening day gun season. The biggest buck i ever killed came by my stand. I shot it and he showed signs of being hit. I waited about 45 minutes. Got out of my stand and went about 100 yds. Spooked him back up. small pool of blood there. Could not get him another shot on him. Two days laterhe came back under the same stand at daybreak looking right up at me. I killed him this time, got down to him and seen thatI had blown the tip of his nose off the first shot. I too figured i would never see him again. But he came back!