this is my fourth year hunting first with a bow my first season i was hunting ky i shot a nice buck at like 70 yards with my Mossberg 12 he was up a hill that had been logged total cleared i shot at him i missed he ran up alittle then stopped i shot again got him the second shot. There was a dirt 4x4 path that i could drive to with in 20 yards or him or walk a total of about 100 yards to get him up and down hills. so i drove when i got about half way there it became a unddrivable trail that was run over with a excavator which made 4 ft by 4ft deep ruts i got stock . When i was walking back to town a guy gave me a ride and when i got my dad and went back my first deer ever shot was going my first thought was coyotes but i have never seen a coyote eat everything including the hair and bone so i think the guy who gave me a ride went back and took the deer since it was off of a road no one used and my 30/30 was still in my truck . This year i got my first shot on a deer since with my bow even and slipped my release and shot over her . Do not feel bad it happens to all of us

stay in there and you will get one why are you just wounding them where is your shot placement what broad heads do you use . good luck

and i think everyone is being alittle hard on you