Well,

(1) I would have made a clean kill shot so I wouldn't have so much trouble tracking a deer. If I wouldn't have had the shoot I wouldn't have taken it

(2) I'll give up when I finally find it. I've been on my hands and knees in ankle high water in the winter searching for blood. One of my idiot land leasers (who is no longer welcomed on the land) shot a doe with a slug 135 yards away. He calls me in the middle of the night. We search and search until daylight the next morning only to find nothing, no blood no deer no anything. I couldn't tell you if he really did hit it. I never seen any blood.