Salty, I say you did the right thing by waiting. Hindsight makes a guy second guess his decision but at the time you don't now what the animal is going to do so you play it safe and wait. I feel your pain and now exactly how you feel as I had the same thing happen on my N Mexico archery hunt this year .A hunt of a lifetime and a beautiful bull I will forever think about that I felt like I had a good hit on got away too. I didn't wait long enough maybe as it was getting dark and my hindsight second guessing of what went wrong is I didn't wait long enough. Every situation is different and everybody will have there own ideas of what you should have done different believe me I have heard it from all sides but bottom line is we were there and did what we feel was the right thing at the time and we will learn from it and never forget the experience. We can talk more over email salty. Chin up bud Scott
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Scott Baysinger