ORIGINAL: wi_buckstomper
well i serched for 4 hours last night and found blood about 50 yds from where i shot just tiny pin drops and spots where he rubbed up against the corn stalks. The blood lasted about 30 yards and then nothing. The corn field he ran into is around 150 acres so thers not much hope. I just hope he lived. Cuz if i got heart/lung he would of died in less than 150 yards.[:@]
Sounds like one weak attitude to me. First of all, I have seen single lung shots travel up to a half of a mile..it doesnt take that long for a deer to cover that kinda ground. I would check every single yard of that cornfield, you owe it to that deer, especially if you hit him the shoulder and hit a lung, he is dead by now.
I use this rule...if you think you hit the animal, you owe at least two full days of tracking, grid searching, and crawling around on your hands and knees searching for even the slightest hint of that animal. Way too many hunters shrug off bad shots and say "oh well" and start hunting again just to get back to the "fun" part.
Man up and get back out there, if you hit any lung, that buck is dead.