Bravo on an excellant postand ditto to what Siskyou said.
If I'd been quiet while waiting on my last 9 point I wouldn't have had to track it for 3 hours and ~300 yard before finding it. The blood trail showed that the buck ran out of sight, then turned and came back within view of my tree- were I was messing with my gear while preparing to get down for an hour wait. From there it proceeded across a dry swamp at a quick pace (very little blood) until it made it to the other side and slowed down again and died within 130 yards of the other side. I figured he came back around to investigate, saw me being impatient and hightailed it out of there.

Peroxide works great
Toilet paper works great, just bring more than you think you need or that last piece will get torn into 100 useless pieces