Muirhead still had the evening deer hunt ahead, but he couldn't get the bull out of his mind. "I just had to go back; I knew he wasn't going to make it far." On Tuesday, December 14, Muirhead returned to the site with his wife, Josie. They found the bull 600 yards back in the woods. "He was hunkered down in the willows, and we got within 40 yards before he picked his head up and looked at us. He didn't try to run. He was coughing, wheezing. He probably had pneumonia from being on his back that long in the cold. You could see where he'd dragged himself 25 yards through the snow to get back in the willows. At that point I knew he was done."