I shot a doe in 1994 and I had a similar situation.I was hunting on private property and was hunting with a 30-06 well I shot this doe as she was running and only caught her hind quarters well she took off and we couldn't find her I waited for about 4 hours after I shot her to get out of my stand.We must have looked for her for 6 hours or so and no trace,so,we tried the next day and only looked for about 2 hours and found her leaning up against a tree deep in the woods,she was still alive a bleeding heavily so I finished her off with a 4/10.It was a miserable process but the point is that I keeped looking not giving up.