Greg, I'm confident you will find him. Don't beat yourself up about taking a walking shot. To be quite honest 1/2 the deer I have taken have been walking. I have rarely tried to stop a deer, only if they were moving fast.

The shot sounds exactly like the one I took my doe with.....a little far back and too high to hit guts. Because it started pouring down rain I had no choice but to take up the trail immediately. Fortunetly for me I found her within 40 yards and put another arrow into at 10 yards.