Any chance you have someone in your area with a trained deer-recovery dog? That is your best chance.

2nd, keep looking, a hit like that will force a mature buck to try to get back to his safe area, his bedding thicket. I know I hit a mature buck high in the shoulder and I found him in his bedding area 250 yards away with no blood trail. He will probably crawl up in his safest place, hes been around long enough to have these places established...if he lived long enough to make it there thats where he is headed imo. Do you know where he bedded. You said you have trail cams of him? You should know some of his patterns right?

You did make a mistake, you admitted it and now its time to move on, learn a very important lesson, decide what its gonna take to not make the same mistake again, I know I did......and last... Many of us have been right where you are... at one point or time. Anyone that says they haven't hasn't hunted much or they are just flat out very fortunate to have everything always go right.... It's like the guy who says he's never been whipped. Truth is... most of the time...he hasn't been in many fights.

Good luck, keep your head up and learn from this....Find that deer. use the birds, yotes whatever...but as of today, you know the direction he was heading..look for him to go back to his security area, his bedding area. If you know where he liked to bed...get a couple buddies and search that area on your handsand knees if you have too...Good luck. 150 class or 50 class...it doesn't matter, I hope you find him.

Troy