Does small amounts of blood eventually kill?

[janirobe]

Will the blood trail ever stop completely?

[Pete Gaimari]

Yes, it will.

Even when it isn't that small.

[Bjørn]

Yes it will stop, and it won't kill. If the blood is red, clear and small amount, the bleeding will stop and the animal heal. Or so it says in the encyclopedia.

[Etny2k]

It will sometimes lead you to where the herd was spooked and your deer still looks alive and well but still bleeding. You will have to take another shot.

[DYEUZ]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Yes it will stop, and it won't kill. If the blood is red, clear and small amount, the bleeding will stop and the animal heal. Or so it says in the encyclopedia.

Exactly.
If you don't try to go for the '' air bubbles '' shot, you are in for a lot of frustration.
Like Bjøn said, they will heal & survive.

[Wulf]

Deer can even stay alive with a half damaged lung. Seen bubbles with small amount of blood, it lived to see another day, but only 1 more.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Etny2k:

It will sometimes lead you to where the herd was spooked and your deer still looks alive and well but still bleeding. You will have to take another shot.

This is a good point. I still always follow the red blood, and often I find the herd not far from where it stopped. Sometimes they don't run very far.

If they're still in the zone they're supposed to be in when the panic stops, they probably just stay there, if all alarm bells and whistles are reset.

You can see both shots in the bullet cam for the animals you shoot twice, btw. Nice touch.

[calanda_wolf]

"Small amount, red and clear" is the WOTH's code to tell you, that you messed up your shot. You can use the blood trail to track the animal (alive) and it's herd, then you can thake perhaps another shot. That's about it. Said animal will n e v e r die of said injury. All of the commentators above are right!

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

"Small amount, red and clear" is the WOTH's code to tell you, that you messed up your shot. You can use the blood trail to track the animal (alive) and it's herd, then you can thake perhaps another shot. That's about it. Said animal will n e v e r die of said injury. All of the commentators above are right!

I had it say this before and it turned out to be an artery shot. The animal died around 100yrds away from the shot. I generally don't chase bad shots, but I've gotten into the habbit of at least investigating them.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

"Small amount, red and clear" is the WOTH's code to tell you, that you messed up your shot.

Yes, I don't like taking long shots. I get too eager. This game is a good teacher of patience.

[calanda_wolf]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

"Small amount, red and clear" is the WOTH's code to tell you, that you messed up your shot. You can use the blood trail to track the animal (alive) and it's herd, then you can thake perhaps another shot. That's about it. Said animal will n e v e r die of said injury. All of the commentators above are right!

I had it say this before and it turned out to be an artery shot. The animal died around 100yrds away from the shot. I generally don't chase bad shots, but I've gotten into the habbit of at least investigating them.

No offense please, but i think it's a fact: "small amount, p i n k and clear" indicates an artery shot that leads to the animals death. The devil is often in the details. :) Please correct me if i'm wrong...

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I had it say this before and it turned out to be an artery shot. The animal died around 100yrds away from the shot. I generally don't chase bad shots, but I've gotten into the habbit of at least investigating them.

No offense please, but i think fact: "small amount, p i n k and clear" indicates an artery shot that leads to the animals death. The devil is often in the details. :) Please correct me if i'm wrong...

Pink is lung. It was "Small amout of blood." Impurities: Clear and yet, yeah dead from an artery neck shot.

[Aragorn]

put some poison on the the ammo to make them drop with small blood xd

[StuTheMoose]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

No offense please, but i think fact: "small amount, p i n k and clear" indicates an artery shot that leads to the animals death. The devil is often in the details. :) Please correct me if i'm wrong...

Pink is lung. It was "Small amout of blood." Impurities: Clear and yet, yeah dead from an artery neck shot.

Pink WITH BUBBLES is lung.
Pink with clear is indeed something else. I think artery is correct.

[calanda_wolf]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

No offense please, but i think fact: "small amount, p i n k and clear" indicates an artery shot that leads to the animals death. The devil is often in the details. :) Please correct me if i'm wrong...

Pink is lung. It was "Small amout of blood." Impurities: Clear and yet, yeah dead from an artery neck shot.

Yes, Pink is "heart, lungs and artery" according to WOTH wiki. So you could be right, we both could be right. I personaly think of a lung shot only if blood is "bubbly". I have to tell you, the more i play this game, the more i research, the more confused i get about the exact mechanics... :)

[Panicsferd]

Originally posted by calanda_wolf:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Pink is lung. It was "Small amout of blood." Impurities: Clear and yet, yeah dead from an artery neck shot.

Yes, Pink is "heart, lungs and artery" according to WOTH wiki. So you could be right, we both could be right. I personaly think of a lung shot only if blood is "bubbly". I have to tell you, the more i play this game, the more i research, the more confused i get about the exact mechanics... :)

Yeah I think if you got the bubbles that is a lung shot, every time I seen the bubbles it has been a lung shot and guarantees you got the good shot and you'll be able to harvest the animal at least 100m from where you shot if not closer.

For me it seems if it is small amounts, it seems you must have botched the shot and probably wasn't fatal. Normally for me if it is small I'd cut my losses and just go look else where, but I decided to follow the blood trail once and it lead me to the herd and was able to shoot that same buck (mainly did it for a quest) and during the after action report it showed that I shot it twice.

I think even when far away I can maybe make out through the scope was kind of blood (at least the size of the blood splatter on the ground) I have and that can determine maybe what I have - but a lot of the times when I first take the shot I look and kind of mark where the animal took off too, sometimes you can even see if go down if you are on a hill or have a good overwatch area.