A couple bud's of mine were hunting in Northern Saskatchewan. They watched a guy get out of his truck, take two shots at a moose, across a cut from the road, stand there for a few minutes, then he got back in his truck and carried on, without being bothered to go check for blood or anything.
Guy was wearing sandals and shorts. What do you figure the odds were that he was going to hump a moose carcass out of the bush, even a short ways.
They had a chat with the Conservation officers about that particular "steward of the land", who said that was far too common. They would shoot, and if it did not drop in sight, it was not looked for.
Yeesh.
Cheers Trevor Jones