TFox, i guess its a possibility it passed another hunter while still walking. However we had trailed her into a very thick area that was full of briars and some points it was so thick we had been crawling through. I know there was small game hunters in the area, im just wondering if one of them had walked up on it.

Fieldmouse, i don't what you were told. But as a rule of thumb i was always told to wait 3hrs to trail a liver hit as to not push the deer into the next county.

Whoever took it, i hope their really proud of the deer they didn't shoot.