You did good IMO. This happened once to me and it was settled by a little green tip off the bullet found while field dressing the deer. Two of us shot at the deer but I was the only one using the New at that time Ballistic tip 30-06 bullet. The other guy said "well I quess we know who killed this one" He was dissapointed because it was his last day to hunt. I told him to take it home since we had both shot at it and I had a week yet to hunt. That paid off as the guy sent me a new Buck folding Knife for Xmas.