We've covered hunting, absolutely a quick clean kill is what anyone hunting should be trying to do. We've covered all the good reasons why a person should be aware of this. Respect for the animal is the only reason I need.
We've covered tracking. A wounded bleeding animal should be easier to track than a healthy running animal.
Well step back a second, if you don't know this. If you wound a deer, elk, moose, antelope.....wait. If you know that you hit your target and your target just went bounding or charging off into the bush, bellowing or not, the worst thing you can do is light out after it. I know a lot of experienced hunters who don't do this, or may disagree, but if you take off immediately after your prey you're going to make everything worse for your prey and yourself. The animal has just been shot, it has the approximate iq of a box of cereal. It's in pain and scared=panicked. If someone starts immediately chasing it, it's going to jump around and run around, mostly in circles until it bleeds out. They're really big circles. You can follow a blood trail for a long time. By the time you find your dead animal, you've put it through a lot of extra fear and pain and you're going to be cutting up meat from a corpse that just spent the last half hour to hour of it's life pumping adrenaline through it's veins. You're in for some tough chewing.
Wait up to half an hour. You now have an animal that thinks, "man, this really hurts, think I'll lie down" You might have a ten minute blood trail to follow and you're getting an animal that has actually suffered less and you're putting a better product on your table. As I mentioned earlier, I've been very fortunate and careful with my shot placements my entire life. Not everybody I've hunted with can say the same. I've seen hunters react both ways to wounded animals and I advise, wait a bit. Have a coffee, sit back and smoke 'em if ya got 'em or whatever it is you do.
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