ORIGINAL: RisnerPSE
Say your hunting buddy calls you up and says he hit a nice buck. He saw the arrow sticking out when it ran off and it is in the back part of the body. So you figure that he hit the back leg. Would you get right on the trail and try to keep his blood flowingso he will run out of blood or would you wait let him lay down and givehim a chance to seal up his woundand then go track him the next morning?
I'll let everyone know what i did last year and the outcome.
Then you say:
If it would of been a gut or a liver shot then, it would of either been a pass thru or just the feathers sticking out. But most of the arrow was sticking out.
You didn't mention that in the first description, and as someone mentioned it would not necessarily have gotten good penetration on either shot.
Also, you said that you did not see the hit, but are going off of second hand information.
With all of that I would definitely wait. I have gotten my share of phone calls like you are describing and we have lost too many deer on what was a "good hit."
If it is a fatal shot and the deer dies quickly he'll still be just as dead if you wait. I have yet to have a deer resurrect and run off, but I sure have caught that flash of white in the flashlight and heard the cracking on brush on deer that "had to be down by now."
Too many lessons learned to try to go to soon.