RE: Hit deer, knocked deer down, deer leaves
That sounds like a high spinal shot. 2 of our deer did that this year and both were hit high towards the spinal cord. My brothers deer came tumbling down the mountain, kicked and rolled around. Then she stood up and started to run off and he got her again and put her down. My doe did the same thing but i got her a lot quicker with a second shot before she could get up and run. I have no clue wheather that deer will live or not. Ive seen shows on tv where a bow hunter got a high spinal shot and they said it would be fine due to the lack of arterys in that area. You did the best you could looking for her.