I shot a nice 7 point a couple of years ago in NJ on my birthday, but never found him. It was a gut shot (still don't know how I messed the shot up) and a car came down the drive on the property we were hunting and he took off. We looked all over for him for the next week and never did find him. Even over the course of the season and following seasons we never found a trace of him. I've heard of deer surviving gut shots, but I don't know.

That's as close as I have come.