This is kind of crazy man. I did the exact same thing 2 seasons ago on a young 10 point. I stuck my carbon arrow tipped with a 100gr. spitfire into his throat. I knew it was a bad hit and came back 3 hours later to look for him. It was a very quiet night, so I would have been able to hear if I pushed him and he was running. Anyways, we also found 3-4 spots where he had stopped a while and the blood trail was phenomenal. There was so much blood, it was crazy and I was convinced we would find him dead shortly. We backed out after about a half mile of looking and came back the next day. We looked everywhere for this deer, including the adjacent properties. A couple days later, my neighbor (non-hunter) jumped a "huge" buck while cutting trees back in his woods. He said the deer was moving slowly and had a bunch of weeds in his antlers. A week after I made the hit on this buck, my neighbor found him dead in the creek. I recovered the animal, tagged him, pulledall the weeds off his antlers, and noticed that the deer hadn't been dead for very long. I was disgusted on my bad shot, but buck fever sure did factor in. The arrow sure did go right through the windpipe, missing the juggular vein. The hole the buck wore from the 10" of arrow that was in him was nearly the size of a tennis ball. I forgot to mention that when the deer was hit initailly, he snapped my arrow off instantly, keeping about 10" + the spitfire in his neck. I guess I am saying good luck. Don't give up if you don't find him today and make sure, as a few others are saying, you check any nearby water source. It doesn't matter how big the water source is, that buck will know where it is and will seek the water to try to cool his fever down.

Good luck!