RE: Recovery, What to do after the shot.
My doe took a step as I was releasing last year and I wound up getting a one lunger and liver. One of my partners thought it was a ham hit and we started moving as soon as she got out of site. We picked up a large pool of [lung blood] blood wihthin about 30 yards. After tracking another 30 yards the lund blood petered out and changed to red blood. We tracked single drops of blood about every six feet or so. She bedded down [uphill from where I shot her] on a hill, 264 [by GPS] yards from the first pool of blood. But she was unable to move from her first bed and I was able to put her away quickly. On a liver hit I would have normally waited two to four hours to start tracking where on a muscle or bone hit I always press the animal slowly to keep it bleeding. In this case I am glad we started pressing withing a few [5 - 10] minutes