Well Saturday I hunted all day, saw 7 deer total, all buck, 3 shooters. At 445 the big came in and gave me a shot @ 25 yards. I drew and let it fly, the hit looked awesome. He donkey kicked so hard he almost flipped over head first. He bounded twice and slowed to a slow walk, his tail tucked the whole time, when I last saw him he was continuously flicking his tail. I got the shakes soooooo bad after the shot, I thought I was gonna come out of the tree.... I get down check my arrow and it's mostly clean of blood. I'm not sure if it was from going through grass after going through him or what happened. I got real nervous, and decided to look for first blood, and found it within 20 yards and it had bubbles, exactly what I would have expected to see. Well I back out grab all my gear and take it to the truck, I'm thinking this is a done deal. I call my cousin to help me get him out of the woods. Well we trailed him 500ish yards to last blood, but the skies opened up and it poured most of the night. All that tracking yielded no beds either. Called the only dog tracker in the area and he wasn't available. Went back out to "grid" search and check creeks and ponds, nothing. Went out again today and nothing. I'm praying I get a picture and it just a flesh wound, I don't know how it would be but still. I drive near that area on the to and from work, so I'll be looking for buzzards on the daily. . . I really don't know how to motivate myself to get back in the woods right now. . . I don't know how to explain how I messed up everything I saw from the shot on to when I last saw him told me it was a solid fatal hit. . . 500 yards and 3 days later I'm empty handed. . .
