I'm relatively new to hunting. This was my second season, and I'm now a bowhunter. I was hunting two days before last Christmas Eve and I shot a doe in the evening. She jumped the string and the arrow hit pretty good forward, but since she jumped a little to me, it went through her gut. In the adrenaline and heat of the moment, I thought I made a really good shot. We tracked her for an hour as it was getting dark, and lost the blood trail. The next morning me and my uncle looked two and a half hours for that doe, and could not find her. He said it was good I felt bad and it happens and that I probably only wounded the deer. It was a horrible feeling so I kept looking anyway. Seeing buzzards circling overhead, I found my doe in a dry creekbottom. It turned out good, but for awhile I felt awful.