I made it out yesterday morning figured it would be a great morning to hunt since the rain had just recently stopped falling it should have the deer on their feet up and feeding..... boy was I right seen alot of deer out feeding.

Come 7:30 or so I look at 34 yards is a nice real thick and stockey bodied gray faced buck feeding on acorns. I ranged him standing broadside looking the other way at 33.5 yards and I could of kneeled in the stand to get a clear broadside shot at him then I relized that I thought he was on the other side of the fence where I cant shoot him............. so I wait and watch and check out his rack....... he appeared to be a I think a 10 pointer with 4 tines and maybe a split brow on his right side and 4 points on his left side with good width and mass but not real long tines but he was a shooter in my book....... I watched him munch acorns for approx 20 to 30 min and then he started walking my way and crossed the fence line so I readied my self for what I figued what would be a easy 15 yard broadside shot so as soon as he passes the tree in front of me I draw my bow and the he TURNS and heads down the trail that literlly passes my tree at 2 yards[:@]
So he is headed straight quartering at me so I placed my pin on him hoping to hit him between his shoulders at 7 to 8 yards and released my arrow..........HITHIM but the arrow buried 12 to 14 inches in him but farther back than I hoped for and to the right of the spine I figured I got liver and gut[:'(][:'(]
I watched him bolt like a Horse out of the gate and watched until he ran off crashing through the woods and dissapeared out of sight... I waited a while and got out of the tree packed my climber and snuck out of the area went and put my climber in my car and changed clothes and after an hour and 15 min I went to look for 1st blood.

The Hit being so high with the arrow still in the deer not getting a pass through created a bad situation for blood trailing so I backed out and we headed back out after him 6 hours after I had shot him. We picked up the blood trail which was sparse but it eventually pettered out I know the shot was leathel but the problem is that with the high hit and the arrow not passing through he is bleeding inside and not leaving a blood trail and headed back across the fence line... we are allowed to search across the fence so the 4 of us split up and started searching thickets , creeck bottoms and the 8 foot tall horse weeds along the river, untill 6:45pm.
No we didnt find him so I will be back out today hoping the turkey vultures will show us where he is or this evening I will be out listening to the coyotes hoping they may lead me to his location.
Sorry to have to share with you all bad news.