17 miles or a bit more tracking a wounded deer that WASN'T shot by me. Opening day of deer season it ran within 20 feet of me about half an hour after sunrise, obviously shot. I chased and stalked that deer for almost 8 hours, finally catching up to it and putting it out of it's misery just before dusk.
It had been shot a few days earlier, what I call a Jersey head shot (shot in the butt, two loads of buckshot in each ham). The wounds were festering, full of pus and could be smelled from a distance. How that animal had the energy to run that long almost non stop is beyond comprehension. A head shot put him out of his misery. No meat was taken because of the long infected wounds.