Last night my buddy shot a 8 pointer. He shot it at 6 yards with a slight quarting away. We waited 3 hrs before tracking just to be sure even though he felt great about the shot. We found bright red blood right away and followed it steadily for about 200 yrd into a marsh with shin deep water we then lost the blood and had nothing to go on. It poured hard last night and wiped out any chance of a little blood that we might of missed. We searched for 6 hrs today to no avail. We checked the wood lines he could of gone to to bed and we checked his sancuary that he spends his time in and searched the marsh hard between last blood and his sancuary. We did not find any more sign. Just wondering what people think I think the shot was a little forward and just missed the lungs but my buddy says he hit behind the shoulder and the angle the deer was at should of made it perfect. So dont know if the deer will live or we we find it. We will be hunting tomm. and the next week and if it is dead hopefully the crows will lead us to it but I think its still walking around. let me know what you think
thanks
jOE