Well I should have had us on the board. I don't know what went wrong. About 20 minutes before dark, an 8 point came directly in and made 2 scrapes in front of me. I'm guessing he would have scored somewhere in the 110" range. After making the scrapes he walked right by my stand giving me a nice quartering away shot at 10 yards. I let him have it and the arrow blew through the torso and into the opposite shoulder, stopping it from passing through. The shot looked nice and he looked to be hit hard. It was really cold last night so I gave him the night to expire, just to be safe. Went out this morning and tracked him for about 100 yards. Minimal blood because of the no pass through and the arrow was still plugging the hole. After losing blood, we grid searched all aound and he is nowhere within 300-400 yards of the last point of blood. He can be ANYWHERE from there.

The only thing I can figure is that somehow my arrow narrowly missed the near lung and I one-lunged him. I'm pretty upset about this, it seems like the better of a shot I make, the harder of a time I have finding them. I will do everything in my power to make sure my next shot on a deer pops both balloons or I'm not shooting. That's pretty much all I can do at this point.