Wounded Animals From the Horses Mouth

I have taken care to include whole quotes as I find them. Accordingly, if you pay attention you may find a sentence that if removed would have made the statement far more demeaning to certain people and to the activity of hunting in general. Because I believe in keeping things in relative context though, I have avoided this entirely. Therefore, these statements are as issued.
(5 Quotations)

• A Hunter - "They were happy and celebrating. Preston had shot his bear. It was just before dark. They had been watching a valley for several hours. All of a sudden a large adult male bear showed itself. Preston shot it with his .338. He knocked it down. It rolled and started running for the alders downhill from him. Preston shot it twice more and the guide shot his .375 to keep him out of the trees. They decided that they had better not follow it into the brush. They would retrieve the skull and hide the next morning. . . . About 15 hours later they made it back to camp. They could find no bear. They found some blood but the rest of him was gone. He simply soaked up the .338 [bullets]and ran off. [65]"
  [.338 (three-thirty eight) and .375 (three-seventy five) are high powered rifles. Notice also that the hunters were only going to take the skull and fur of the bear. This is because bears are hunted as trophies.]

• A Hunter - "I’ve seen all kinds of “hunters” take “I had to try, you know” shots and never even go follow up to see if they had wounded the animal. [62]"

• A Hunter - "I had been approached several times before but I was never interested in leasing my ground to hunters. I had seen to many small deer wounded with arrows left in hindquarters or bullet wounds that caused fatalities in young bucks that should have never been shot at. [57]"

• A Hunter - "You’ve just unleashed the whisper of death on an unsuspecting whitetail and as your arrow finds it’s way to your target, you hear that all-too-sickening sound of a less than ideal shot. Gut shot, shoulder shot, or worse. . .it happens to all of us. (sic) [50]"

• A Hunter - "Finally the gobbler stepped out of a dry-creek bed and popped his head up looking for his ‘Sweety.’ I shot at him, but he didn’t fall – I was shocked – he just kinda jumped and then ran off. What happened? Dave and I went over to find feathers or blood. A very few feathers but no blood. [19] (sic)"