Longest it took you to find/track down your game after shooting it?

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OK now thats funny. I have never tracked one of mine more than 75yards. But I will say that I have helped some friends "track" there deer for ever. You know the type, no blood, no bone, nothing but kicked up dirt and a story.
 
I once spent the better part of a morning pursuing a wingshot mallard through flooded timber. Ended up finding him after 2 hours and about a half mile walking with heavy waders in 3' water breaking ice plus climbing over submerged logs and other debris. This was plus a solid dunking in 30 degree water when I foolishly walked into the hole left by the rootwad of a fallen tree.

That was the morning I first said to myself "I need a dog!"
 
I guy I went to school with was hunting ducks once and the duck went down on the water and then started swimming away. His dad made him chase it in a rowboat. It was still swimming when he caught up with it after it swam several hundred yards.

I never did ask how he dispatched it after catching up with it.

Same guy one time his dog would not go in the water for some reason to retrieve a duck so he stripped off his clothes and went in and got it. Was like 40 degrees out.
 
Longest tracking job I ever had was a big bull elk that I saw a guy shoot. The guy claimed he did not hit it but I saw dust fly off the animal. The guy drove off and I went after the elk. Tracked it about a quarter of a mile and it was found lying dead. Checked in a nice 6x6 elk.
 
I had 2 long tracks, one a whitetail I shot with a muzzle loader .50 cal through brush a moveing shot. found it over 1/4 mile away lucky there was some blood to follow, shot it too far back and high but it was dead when I found it, bled out. or blew out through nostrils tre shot still got both lung-tips.
another was a fairly large wild/feral hog sow, another moveing shot I took with a Ruger Old Army BP revolver, got it too far back also but both lungs were damaged. there was a little snow on the ground so not too hard to find since there was blood. over 1/4 mile and still blowing it was in thicket so put another slug into it.
 
ilbob, swimming out after a duck that you shot sounds like something an uncle of mine was know to do. he would go duck hunting and he either came home empty handed or with one duck , with him being cold and wet :eek:.
 
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