She saw me in the tree and stopped with her front quartering me.
An alert deer quartering toward you.....[&:]
I figured I'd give her more time, in the mean while, I'd go back to the house and get some lighter clothes (temp was in the low 80's) and put my bow up. The way back to the house I hoped I would cross where she hit the fence. I figured I'd try to find blood on my trail back or hair on the fence and that would give me a starting point to start looking after I gave her some more time to die. She was moving so fast after I shot her, I knew picking up blood in that first 60 or 70 yards was going to be difficult. I didn't find any sign on the way back to the house, no hair on the fence, no blood, no scuffed up ground where she might have fallen. I thought maybe I might even find her dead on the way back but it didn't happen.
Maybe I'm missing something, but weren't you afraid to jump the deer from a bed if the deer went in any direction toward your house and you were walking in the same direction?