Are the 3-5min ingame or irl time?
btw thx, interesting scheme..

That's quite some scientific effort, I like it!

But I'd say, you might have a general mistake causing this effort to be executed in the beginning. Even shot animls do not run from you for miles, they barely run for a hundred yards, they usually return to trot within one hundred yards.

The only reason why you are not able to track it down is that you are scaring it while tracking it.

If you shot something, don't go after it. Wait one or two seconds and then go after it slowly while using the caller.

I've made this mistake by myself a lot and the only reason I found why I wouldn't be possible to track it and bring it down in the end, was that I was scaring it while I tracked it.

Not a bad idea. So many hours I've put into the game and I still love it. I still think the game has it out for me, every time I decide "I'm going here to hunt" either I'm upwind already, or the wind is about to move in that direction. D:

A couple of things that would stop an animal from coming back quicker is the level (higher levels might not comeback) and wind direction shift. If the wind shift and now that animal can catch your scent, it will stop and possibly go away in a different direction. I might update this guide to ask "Was it a moose" lol..

Today I finally decided to hunt moose, had my Crossbow and a few of the largest bolts, About 5/6 of the shots I took, was 1 shot, a small walk away and then confirm my kill, but I did get a single flesh wound, the Moose DID return to the general area (Resting area), but it was 30 minutes later, I was still in the area hunting other moose / Bears still, I think it's just rather lucky and generaly one should give up with just a Flesh Wound on them. It is a lesson you learn quickly with moose and elk even with the guide.

I should do a simpler chart for Moose.. Flesh Wound = go hunt something else..I lost so many hours tracking Moose..lol

Pretty awesome flow chart. Need to try and remember all the steps to know enough is enough and I should just go and hunt something else. Rated up and Favourited.

No problem! I think there are some tweaks I can still do, but this flow probably cover the basics! :)

Thanks for the guide! I didn't think to look at hunting pressure after game runs off... I've spent way too long running after game that I never catch up to.