It's not much of a consilation, but even though you "lost" it, it really didn't go to waste. This was explained to me by a biologist friend after I was lamenting about releasing a bleeding chrome 25+# springer. I knew it was going to die, and I wished I could keep it. Well....what he said was it would be used by other animals in the food chain, just not me. I've lost 1 deer, and it totally sucked. I slept in my truck (after searching until well past midnight) and trailed the next morning to no avail. Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug.