Personally, I'd rather recover the deer then not. I will wait up to 20 hours on an intestine hit (that would be about the longest wait). I think that a lot of the taste issue also has a lot to do with when the deer dies. Take the intestine hit, the deer will taste different if the deer dies 1/2 hour after the hit and you wait20 hours to recover it then if the deer lives 19 1/2 hours and you recover it 20 hours after the hit.

In any case, if you feel that the deer will not taste very good, there is always the hotdog/sausage route, or it could be donated.