But the "Rest of the Story"... it usually is gut shot. And I tell you, if this deer didn't run in a pretty straight line tearing up straw in a Georgia pine head, I don't know if we'd of found it. The blood was almost non existant. We found one place where there was a drop about the size of a quarter where he jumped a ditch. We had lost the blood 1/2 hour before, we'd only gone 40 or50 yards. I decided he had to cross that ditch and maybe would squirt some when he landed. I crawled slowly along the other bank and found the blood and tracks again. The rest was pin head size and then only every 15 or 20 yards. The reason it was so close before we saw it, there was NO white showing anywhere. The deer must have did a full gainer and when he flopped he was upright with his head caught under his belly with his legs up under him and he was held in an upright laying position leaning against a pine.