To answer a few of your Q's. The hair was mostly white. So I probably hit him low, yes I know that now. Blood was nice and bright but not frothy really. Blood seemed to be more of a drip than a spray. Neither buck was on the move when the arrow was released the small spike was at full attention when I released porbably had me busted somewhat and was ready to book when I let go. The two branches I shot between were like 2 big sticks sticking up from the ground from fallen trees they were single big limbs and had no smaller limbs coming off them. They were also about 6 feet apart and probably 4 feet in front of the 8 pt. So that wasn't even a factor. The trail went from alot of blood to nothing so it was a bit confusing to me. I know people are ging to say I should of waited longer. I also didn't mention that in this swamp probably 50 percent of it is inaccessible to humans because of it's depth.