well...started off alone just walking all the REALLY likely spots from the last blood. 11oclock i got a gand of 5 guys. we combed EVERY nook and crany within a half mile..then farther in the only section of woods between the corn and hay fields. we walked 5yds apart in thick stuff and about 10 in the open woods..if he was there we woulda found him. checked allllll the thick stuff and all the water. all the valleys and draws and blow downs and everything. walked the whole field up and back and all around where we lost blood. we combed that REALLY hard..turned up nothing. from the shot to the last blood is roughly 400yds. id give ourselves an A+ for tracking last night. that field is rediculous..excpecially at night. somehow we managed to keep turning up a drop here and there..flagged the whold trail. i just cant believe i didnt get lungs. granted the initial hit was high i think to hit the far shoulder and stop there i would had to take the lungs with it...only thing i can think of is when he ducked it bent the shoulder and i blasted through the first shoulder...the way he ran i could tell atleast 1 was hit hard..kinda hunched down and bucked up his front before runnging. then he coulda kicked the close shoulder and snapped the arrow..im bummed..but i honestly believe hes not dead and so does my farmer friend and my other buddy whose an expirienced bowhunter. both were with me the whole time. blood was muscle blood and he went pretty far through some rough stuff to be lung hit. this sucks...i did my part...i had an excellent shot sent his way...didnt rush the shot and the lighted nock told me it was flying true till i seen him hunch down right as the arrow was gone. and we did the absolute best we could looking. if he was dead we woulda found him..we didnt push him and he never laid down. only half decint blood we had is when he jumped the dead pine trees. he slowed down after that till he hit that field. im bummed. havent ate since this time yesterday...and havent slept since longer..i got sleep last night but i was tossing and turning the whole nite and just had the shot visual playing in my head but i dont think hes dead...just hope he dont die. hopefully the farmer or one of my buddy sees him spotting or farming..i dont know what he woulda scored but he woulda been my first NICE buck. he wasnt a monster but i didnt have to count points to know he was legal. and the main beams were nice and thick....

sorry guys.....i dont know if im gunna keep trying or not...i just feel like POOP. the worst part is i did all i could and DID my part. woulda been a double lung smoking shot right about the heart cutting off all the arteries..why did he have to duck? i wanna get back out there..and will..i just dont know that ill shoot. if there was a text book shot id say i had it...and made it..but he ducked