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Old 11-27-2006 | 11:45 AM
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NCYankee
 
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Default RE: how long should you wait?

ORIGINAL: SBGobblers

temperature?

weather (imminent rain?)?

Given only the information you gave.......I'd say 4 hrs, min.

Jeff
Yo're right to ask for that info.

I hunt in an area that has a fairly healthy coyote population. Even on a single-lung shot I would wait maybe an hour at the most (rather than feed the coyotes). Remember that the animal will be running hard and most likely "drown" in its own blood. I had a lung shot last year and waited about 30 minutes. When I found that buck an hour (60 yards downhill in thick Goldenrod) later he was already getting stiff and his tounge was blue (no oxygen).
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