x2 on the circle method, but like boone823 said, gut shot archery can go for a long ways with out leaving blood. I gut 1 in ks, didn't know it, but by the time I climbed down after I seen her lay down (5min) and walk to get my arrow, n ck the shaft for frozen blood, (found guts instead) I give her another 45min while I went back to my tck, fired it up, warmed up some, drove to the other side of the draw and set another 30min before bearing the sub temps, (driving up she must have heard me, took off again) I got out, found the first lay down spot and it looked like a Friday the 13th murder site, trailed a hundred yds, found another laydown murder site, 50yds, another site. she laid down 3 more times, I covered almost 1000yds and the blood stopped flowing and I nvr found her. red on white snow is easy to follow, but when it aint leaking no more, u cant find what aint there. it is gut wrenching to shoot any harvesting animal and then not be able to find it, especially if ur into horns n that's what u lost. look on the bright side, u wont have to eat horn soup from this 1. I never could find enough meat on the horns to fill my belly with food.
