The best thing you did is not to track that buck. If it is cold, going out at 3pm tomorrow is perfectly acceptable. If it is not cold, I would go back out around 11 pm tonight and start looking...if you get a bad feeling about something...mark the last place you found blood and leave. Come back tomorrow. The deer will die if you hit it where you described and found dark red blood 100 yards from the shot...hopefully it is cold and the buck will bed down and die within another 100 yards or so. YOU WILL find him if you take it slow.

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