Originally Posted by
Mickey Finn
I agree. Each situation has it's own factors. But it general waiting 20 minutes or so should be all you need. Once in our UP I went back to my truck and put up my rifle then went to find my deer. There were already wolf tracks around it when I got there. The last time I put away my rifle I can tell you.
All depends on where you hit the deer.
20 minutes on a gut shot assures your deer is wasted and very well could cause you to lose a liver shot deer.
Hear and/or both lungs the deer should be dead before you can even get started tracking.
I think to many people seem to think you only have 2 options
1. In the first 30 minutes
2. 12 hours later.
You never hear anybody say "wait 5 hours"