ORIGINAL: GMMAT
When a buck is down via our arrow......and the hit is marginal.....we have a decision to make if the temps are "marginal". What's the "right" decision? Do we leave at a time when we take a chance of jumping the buck up.....in order to save the meat? Or....do we give the buck PLENTY of time to expire.....knowing we're going to lose the meat?
Isn't there a risk, either way? Who's to say what's "right"......other than the man who took the shot?
I still think I would let him, or her lay. To me, it doesn't matter what sex the deer is. I will wait until I feel like the deer has had adequate time to expire before taking up the blood trail. I think that we owe it to them for two reasons.
1. Ensures, or betters our chances to recover our downed animal, and
2. Lets the animal die quicker, and with less stress then pushing "it" around the property.
Thats what ***I*** would do.