RE: Is a late recovery really a recovery?
To me, you haven't got anything until it's in the freezer. That's why I hunt. To eat good red meat. Actually, my wife said it best when we were watching a hunting show where they only took the antlers of a caribou. "Why even kill them if you aren't going to eat them?" That's why after wounding 2 deer and finding out my bow limbs are so old they don't have enough kenetic energy to kill a deer, I stopped using it all together. It caused me to lose the rest of the season and go deerless for the second year in a row, but I can't see wounding a deer and hoping I find it in time. Just my opinion.
KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.