A high shot usually results in very little blood trail because the body cavity has plenty of time to fill up with blood first. Plus since the arrow was still in him, you are plugging up the hole(s) with arrow, this makes a bad situation even worse.

I shot an 8-point high in the lungs with a 30'06 and it took off at a dead run for 150 yards, found it piled up. No blood until near where it fell. I thought I missed until I found some hair. And that was with a high powered rifle.

The last deer I tracked did 2 90 degree turns and ended up running directly opposite the way he started.

Like others told you, nothing left to do but tedious searching.Let us know how it ends up.

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