After how long, since the shot, can an injured animal still die?

[Spigamagis]

Say I stay 6, 8 hours in the same session, can the wounded animal still die?

[Bowfin]

That's hard to say but I've found that if the animal doesn't die within 10 mins, it's not going to. Check the area on the map for that purple/pink spot,that will tell you if the animal has died.

[Lenny Rat]

I will track an animal so long as I find blood. Once that stops, unless that animal is below 25% health, I assume it has healed.

[Mr. Ed]

I don't even start tracking until 5 min (RL) have passed, unless my map tells me that it's died before then. If it's a big animal and has a low bleed rate it could take a while. Making the animal run doesn't seem to make it bleed out any faster in this game. Both Bowfin and Lenny Rat have the right of it. You may, at times, encounter the same animal the next day with a health of 25-50%. That doesn't mean it will eventually die, only that it takes some time for it heal back up to 100%.

[Geronimo]

They say that an arrow hit will always be fatal, even if just flesh wound. Cant say I've noticed one way or other with bows, but I do know that you can track some bullet wounds for a very long way.

Flesh wounds will sometimes start to heal over and the health percentage will start to rebuild making it tricky to continue tracking if it starts to cross over its older tracks.

As Ed noted, if left the animal can often be seen again much later still showing 25 percent, but I would say that if the wound hasn't killed it after 30 minutes, it's not going to.

10 minutes is a little too soon to quit. I've tracked slowly bleeding animals for much longer.

I think if you check the first blood sign and it says flesh or non vital you have 2 choices. First u can find a hiding spot or return to stand depending on distances, and see if you can lure wounded animal back instead of chasing it forever.

Secondly, u can also follow up the next half dozen blood pools to see if they have dropped down to 50 or 25. If so continue following and watch the changes. If they seem to be hanging on, then u might want to cover up and try luring it back.

Like we said, sometimes that 25 percent can remain a long time, half way across a map if u r driving it by not being stealthy enough.

Which means open terrain lack of cover, noise, and wind direction are also considered in your choices.

[Mr. Ed]

I went after a flesh wounded moose once. Shot it with the .243 when I first started playing this game and was kind of stupid about things. She died eventually but my tracking job was 3.2 Km long (took about 2 hrs in RL which is about 8 hrs in game time). Never again, I vowed, would I start following a wounded deer right after the shot. I haven't and it's paid off.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Mr. Ed:

I went after a flesh wounded moose once. Shot it with the .243 when I first started playing this game and was kind of stupid about things. She died eventually but my tracking job was 3.2 Km long (took about 2 hrs in RL which is about 8 hrs in game time). Never again, I vowed, would I start following a wounded deer right after the shot. I haven't and it's paid off.

Hard lesson! Lol

I think prior to dlcs everyone had to go through that, even after they got to the 7mm. It's also one of those things that scares new players off if they dont figger it out