Thanks guys for all the advice. Is there a possibility of clotting in the blood? I went to look sun and looked again for 7 hours and notinging. I was also hunting public land and theirs always hunters around, so walking all over the place is kinda hard without pissing everyone off. The doe's last blood teail i found was 300-350 yards away from the point where i shoot her. I waited 1 hour to track her after the high shoot. I should of waited any where from 3-8 hours to track her. How long before the meat will go bad? Here in ohio its gettting down to 35 degrees f. at nights and as high as 70 degrees in the day. I feel really bad not be able to find these deer and cant even sleep over it at nights. This would of been my first deer i taken, so you must know how i fell. The buck i shoot was not found eather. I took a few buddies with me to look and still not luck. I think i didnt wait long enough and spooked them both when i went to trail them. Is it true that wounded deer can trevel miles before dieing, or there wounds can clot and live? All the tracking stuff to me is new so all the stuff you told me helped out very much. Thanks allot for everything. James