ORIGINAL: ducsauce
You should have tried grunting him in. I owe a lot of my success to calling. We might be having a different coversation right now if you had tried. Thats why it's called hunting and not killing.
Hang in there bud.
I agree, I've grunted deer from the first day to the last day. If you do it sparingly, you won't spook him. You didn't get a shot anyway so grunting wouldn't have hurt anything, again done sparingly and naturally.