The way the deer reacted it sounds like a hit to me. Just because you saw no blood doesn't mean you missed.

I'll give you a few examples. A few years ago i was hunting in the mountains with a buddy from school. We were walking a cutline at dawn and came across a nice young wt buck stuffing his face with the clover that was growing on the line. I took my time, waited for a broadside and shot from about 150 yards. We landmarked where he was and immediately went to see if we had sign of a hit. No luck. After a few minutes of waiting for the sun to get a little higher we located his tracks and followed for at least 150 yards, no blood, no hair, andno sign to indicate a hit At this point we started to doubt the shot but decided that it was best to spread out and keep going in the same directionjust in case. 300 yards later my buddy hollers to me that he found him, stone dead from a bullet through both lungs. 450yds (mostly downhill) is a heck of a long way for a mortally wounded deer to go but he made it somehow. When we opened him up we found the reason why he didn't leave a trail. My bullet had entered one shoulder passed throught his lungs and buried itself just under the hide behind his shoulder on the othe side The fact that that deer made it that far on three pegs is even more impressive to me. When we gutted him, we found that he had bled out into the space between his front leg and his torso. We even backtracked him and could not find blood.

The second example happened to me last year. Hunting with a different partner we caught a big wt on a cutline next to a field early one morning. I had time and the deer offered a nice quartering away shot from 255yrds. At the shot, he took off but wasn't in a panic like he'd been hit. We waited and after 20 minutes went to look. We found his tracks immediately and followed them. there was no hair, no blood and no signs of a hit. There was heavy frost that morning so we were able to follow him for several hundred yards. After 1/2mile we concluded not hit and went back to the truck. fast forward several months and my hunting partner is out shed hunting this spring and stops by the landowners house to ask a question. Te landowner asks if we ever found the deer we shot at last year to which buddy replies no. Landowner takes him to the shed and shows him the rack from the buck and tellshim that he picked it up when he was checking fence in the spring. The deer wa found not 200 yards from where we stopped looking. My partner knew this was the buck immediately as he was quite unique and at least a 170 rack. needless tosay, I still feel sick over the whole thing but at the time we were convinced that there was no hit.

The moral, always go asfaras you can after a shot. Never doubt your shot and don't leave a track even if there's no blood. Just because you've never seen a deer act a certain way doesn't mean you missed. Hope this helps, good luck next time.