I always wait an hour after a bow shot to look for the deer and by then it is pitch black out I carry about 5 or 6 of them now When it is time to start up the search I put one where I was sitting when I shot as a reference point it is amazing how fast you can get turned around when searching for blood in the dark
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The remaining sticks are for marking the blood trail and after the deer is found put one at the carcass so you can go straight to it after getting the game cart or help.
Here is a tip I had some full size chem lights I got at home depot that i carried about 5 years before using and they worked fine then I replaced them with some smaller ones last year sold for Holloween and tried to use them a few weeks ago and the green ones would not work but the blue ones did.
Buy the full size chemical lights I get them in the tool department at home depot not the cheep Halloween ones.