Peroxide is a great aid as is the Coleman Lantern. My only worry about the Coleman Lantern is that the wilderness areas where I hunt are usually tinder dry during the archery season . . . and I am petrified of an accident that could start a wildfire.

One thing I had hoped to try this year was my Princeton Tec LED Headlamp. I am thinking that maybe . . . MAYBE . . . the light from the headlamp will make the blood glow as will the Coleman Lantern.

Personally, I will track in rain but much slower and paying even more attention to what lies ahead. I have had two liver shots. One of those my partner thought I had hit in the hind quarter. Such a shot requires pushing slowly. However in about 35 yards (gice or take) I found a pool of bright pink blood with bubbles an a larger pool of dark red. From that point the lung blood stopped and after a few yards the dark red liver blood petered out to one drop every 5 or six yards. We tracked this animal 264 yards before we found her in her first bed 50 yards uphill. She was unable to get up from her bed and after a short wait I was able to put her away with another arrow.

I helped a friend track a gut shot animal in a Pacific Northwest drizzle at dusk. We tracked slowly and gently 100 yards and moved her from her first bed. We paid attention to her direction of travel, backed off and returned the next morning to track her. We found her 75 yards from her bed and she had not beed dead long.

I believe, that if we inadvertantly move an animal from its bed, we have a good idea of the hit, [back off and allow the times recommended by John Trout Jr.] when we return to the trail we should find the animal within 100 yards. But don' t think that a wounded animal won' t go uphill . . . the definitly will.