I shot a 4 pointer yesterday in the rain and we searched for over 2 hours in the dark before we had to give up. It crossed a fence onto the neighbors place and we found a lot of blood but we lost the trail after about 100 yards and searched a area over 400 yards in all directions but couldn't find anymore blood. With the rain it was washing the blood away and we had trouble seeing where it ran. We've crawled around on our hands and knees before looking for deer and hogs and we normally can find them within 200 yards max. Though sometimes you just can't find them.