Sometimes it takes way more than 12 seconds.
Look at ER stuff... folks can get shot, lungs, heart, mixes of the two and still make it to the ER alive...they may not live, but they ain't dead in 12 seconds at times.
There are a lot of factors involved.
And twice now we've shot mature bucks double lung shots, pretty much center of both lungs, not fringes and have found the bucks alive around 3 hours later as we wait sometimes 2-3 hours before trailing. If they bed up, they can clot up. Both times as teh bucks stood up and walked off, they broke the clot and died.
Which projectiles were used?
