blood trail stops.

[Metromaverix]

Have had this problem many a time.. After a not to good a shot and tracking the animal the blood pool stops.. It still leave the animals tracks ( to continue on) as if it was never hit.. Even now i have the Dog as a companion this problem continues.

[Yuccasu]

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Your dog can follow the trace even if is not visible any longer. You have to command him tracking on the last blood spot, at least this is how it works for me.

[Metromaverix]

this happened before the dog d/l was even thought of.... many a time in pretty much all of the location maps. After i was tracking ( the prey) the blood stop but the trail continues.. The blood loss ratio gets to between 0-25% and it seems the animal has a 2nd life.. So i just leave it and just move on in frustration

[armitage]

that is the main reason i have given up on this, you trek and shoot (shot one point blank in the face as i turned around and it was right behind me). you trek for ages can be 30 minutes and tracks stop. got so frustrated i have just given up completely uninstalled again.

[shit owl]

Originally posted by Metromaverix:

Have had this problem many a time.. After a not to good a shot and tracking the animal the blood pool stops.. It still leave the animals tracks ( to continue on) as if it was never hit.. Even now i have the Dog as a companion this problem continues.

idk if it's this but in case you didn't know bleed can wear off on an animal often still most of the time even if u just hit flesh but with the right caliber on the desired animal it will usually bleed out eventually but they "can" survive and just be left alive with like 2%hp or so in case that's what you mean cuz yeah the bleeding will stop eventually the best example would prob be shooting a bison with a 22lr it will brush it off easily

[Striker]

There's a difference between the health rating and the bleed rate. Using the binos can tell you the animals health (with the perk for it). Tracks show blood loss rates, not health. Wounds can close and U wind up following tracks that keep going and going without further blood loss. The wound closed, the animal is alive and you have an extremely small chance of "catching up" to it.

All you have to do is stand in place after you make the shot and monitor your map to see if hunting pressure appears. Give the animal time to die before you take a single step. Normally, if it's going to die even a very poorly hit animal will do so within 15-20 game min. After wounding an animal, running right after it or immediately attempting to follow the blood trail can lead you down the path to self inflicted frustration. Blood that says 0-25% can mean the animals wound is closing up or that it's running out of blood. Unless....you've waited before tracking. Then it only means the wound is closing because if it was running out of blood it would be dead already.

On some of my longer shots (300 meters or more) I've hit animals and after waiting 15-20 game min had no hunting pressure appear on my map. I then moved toward the hit spot and when I got within 150-200 meters of it the hunting pressure finally appeared on my map. Not because it took a long time to die (had one that barely went 50 meters before dropping dead after being hit). It's just a kind of bug you might encounter on long range shots. JSYK.

[shit owl]

nah i've found multiple animals of mine with 0-25% hours after the initial shot and they were very much alive

[Falcon]

It's because the animal's wound eventually clotted up and it stopped bleeding. If you didn't hit vital organs, there's no guarantee the animal's going to die. Especially on a large animal like a moose, flesh wounds are not usually fatal.

[shit owl]

Originally posted by Falcon:

It's because the animal's wound eventually clotted up and it stopped bleeding. If you didn't hit vital organs, there's no guarantee the animal's going to die. Especially on a large animal like a moose, flesh wounds are not usually fatal.

exactly