ORIGINAL: PABrent
Liver shot deer need 4-6 hours on the ground. Hitting the liver will cause INTERNAL Hemorrhage. The deer should bed down within a few hundred yards. Also I firmly believe the deer will take the path of least resistance IF it is not jumped. After that its hard to tell. I just recovered a liver shot deer and I took out 1 lung. The deer ran about 500 yards AFTER I jumped him. Get a buddy and one of you stay on blood, the other make large circles and you'll find him. Dont give up
If they die in an hour... they'll still be dead in 4-6... when I wrote in my first post that they'll usually die in an hour..... they usually will.... but... like I said.. they'll still be dead in 4-6.. liver hits can be funny.... if you get a good amount of dark red blood... you got the major arteries that flow through the liver... and an hour would be a long time... if you just clip it... then the deer could live for more than 6 hours.... variables....