Congrats Tx! First score.

I shot and lost a buck Saturday night. He came in last light.I was actually preparing to get down (swirling winds had me hunting a climbing stand) and I heard him come in behind me. I didn't have my glove on and had put my arrow in my quiver. I grabbed an arrow, turned around and looked for the deer. It was probably the last 5 minutes of legal light but I was in the woods so it was pretty gloomy. I spotted him and could see that he seemed like a decent buck and I told myself he had to get close for a shot in this light. He grazed on the white oak acorns to about 25 feet away from me. He had his head down and broadside when I took the shot. On release I couldn't even see the arrow in flight or where it hit him. I have white nocks and 6" of white reflective wrap but I couldn't see it (lumi-nock would have been great). He took off like a bolt. I could hear my arrow banging off things as he ran. He only ran for a couple seconds and then, silence. The hit didn't have that hollow sound chest cavity hits have. He ran towards my neighbors property. I called my hunting buddy and he and his wife (she had shot over the backof a small 5 pointer 10 minutes earlier)started my way. We searched the spot where I shot him but couldn't find anything: hair norblood. We looked briefly over where I last heard him but didn't see anything. I was hoping the reflective tape on my arrows would help us spot him. My neighbors property is big open hardwoods with next to no understory. It looks like a city park with hardly even any leaves on the ground in areas. If he was in there we'd spot him. We went back to my house and had some grilled marinated backstraps wrapped in bacon and then he and I went back up with a couple of Coleman lanterns. We couldn't find any blood, even on a dirt road60 yards away frommy standhe would have had to cross given the direction he ran. We scoured the neighbors woods and the area beyond his, then went uphill and worked our way down on my property from where the buck had come from remembering Matt's ordeal and that bucks often double back. Nothing. He crashed at my house since it was already close to midnight and he had a 1:45 drive back to his place. 7:30 the next morning we got up and did a more extensive and detailed grid search but found nothing. Not even my arrow. This is the second time this scenario has happened to me and I determined I'm ending my hunts 5 minutes earlier. Those low light shots just don't allow you to gather enough information at/after the hit to make a determination on how well you hit the deer, and where he went. I suspect I made a high shoulder shot and that he ran briefly and then walked away, which is why I couldn't hear him anymore. My arrow may have flown out and away into the heavy cover on my property but I couldn't find it even with the aid of lights and reflective wraps. Really wish I had a glow nock on it, or that I hadn't taken the shot. It seemed like such a gimme chip shot, if there is such a thing in bowhunting.I'm going to keep my eye out for him, and vultures. I'll be hunting a different farm this weekend where I saw a 150 class buck at 10 yards during a stalk last year but couldn't get a clear shot. Hopefully we'll meet again under more advantageous (for me) circumstances.