Don't hang up hunting, just learn from your mistake. I posted in another forum about a deer I gutshot 20 years ago and couldn't find. I searched for two days. At the end of the season I found him extremely far from the shot point. He probably lived for a day. Now, 20 years later, it still bothers me. I won't shoot unless I have a perfect shot, and all conditions are right. I'd rather pass a shot and think I probably could have gotten him.