ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
ORIGINAL: skeeter 7MM
I don't agree with your statement in bold. An animal can die by other than a vital hit from an arrow, bullet, etc.
Ie:
You hit them in the guts they will die!! You hit them in the jaw on a botched head shot they will die!! You may never find them because of the lack of blood spill but they willnot survive all non vital hits.
Actually a gut shot is a vital shot, they will bleed to death. Now a jaw shot is not, and technically the bullet didnt kill them, starvation or infection did.
Please, the straws for which you are grasping are very short.[
] I don't consider the guts a vital(nor doI know any hunters who do). I certainly won't consider a wound inflicted by a hunter that lead to death a non lethal action. Whether blood loss, starvation or predator was the final nail in the coffin is moot as they died as result of previous actions or other than natural manners.