Now what? Provided the animal you shot at is dead what do you do next?

Asking because I have no idea, this would be the first time I do this.

Tag it FIRST, then take pics and dress it.

If the deer ran out of sight (which they commonly do), just sit still and wait absolutely silent for at least 20 minutes (30 minutes is even better. An hour if you can stand it.). Take that time to retrace the shot and where it was standing when it was hit so you know where to start looking for the blood trail. Identify features in the trees and vegetation where the animal was hit and where it ran off to, because the woods will look differently as you move toward that direction, so it helps to have a feature you can identify and head towards. Look for blood obviously, but there will also be hair on the ground where it was hit, from the broadhead (or bullet) cutting through the hide.

You sit still and silently after the shot, because after a deer is hit it will usually only run off about 50 to 100 yards and then it will stop, look back and listen, trying to figure out what just happened. If it doesn't hear or see anything coming after it, it'll bed down, bleed out and die right there (sometimes you might even hear them bawling from the injury as it's dying). If it hears or sees you coming after it, then it will get full of adrenalin and run for miles, or if hit real bad, it will keep getting up and moving away from you as you're closing in on it. That's why you wait still and silently after the shot. To allow the thing to relax and give it time to die. This keeps the deer closer, which means less tracking and less chance of never finding it.

So let's say you've done the waiting, tracked the blood trail, and see your downed deer. You want to be sure it's dead before you get close to it, so it doesn't jump up and gore/hoove you to death. I always look for the tongue hanging out. Its eyes will also have a dull, dead look to them, but the tongue hanging out is the sure bet that it's dead.

Then field dress it.

Turkey are kind of different. The one I shot just flapped around for about 10 seconds and died right there within sight, but it was a perfect shot right through its heart. Didn't leave any blood on the ground. I hear if you wound one, they run off and not leave a blood trail. So you're lucky if you find one that didn't die within sight.

Might just do that!