I've been through experiences on both sides of this fence.

Today, I'd opt to wait and suffer my losses with the meat on a marginal hit.

I lost the second biggest buck I have ever shot with a bow because I pushed him on a marginal forward shoulder shot. I hated myself for doingit, when Iknew better...I felt like stopping bowhunting all together that NOV....I didnt hunt for almost a month after that, I was sick and disgusted with myself..... I just kept looking for him and looking for him...many times I had walked close to him and didnt know it until I finally found him..it was just such a nastythicket/mess in where he crawled up and died..... I ended up finding him in shed hunting season two months later once all the leafs dropped....Bitter, bittersweet, but it taught me a valuable lesson. Better to find them with theirmeat eaten or sour..than to completely lose them.. imo