Really bad news guys. Went out looking this morning for 4 hrs. Tracked him about 600 yds, ( 3 farm fields), blood was very spotty. Still bright red, but speckles. Anyway, he came to a large picked soybean field, & there was a couple of good blood splots, then absolutely nothing. So we figured that he had trotted across the field to a nearby mix of tall grass/thick cover/trees. After walking that thing systematically, we actually came across where he was bedded down. Fresh bright red blood in his bed, & found enought blood to run off a leaf nearby. So we may have pushed him. Mind you, it's been 15 hrs since I hit him. So with that I can't figure out where he was exactly hit. A friend suggested that maybe it was more parallel to his ribs, & maybe just below the skin or under the ribs. He bedded down just the one time, we figured must have been last night. But the distance was unbelieveable. So I don't know what to think. We trailed him out of his bed & up a field to an alfalfa field w/a patch of hard woods across from it. I think that's where he's headed. I got permission to look tommorrow. Maybe the land owner will come out for a look. He's a hunter himself. Hopefully time will take it's toll. The temp is around 50 tonight. Sorry for getting any hopes up, I thought for sure that it was a good hit with where I had seen the fletching sticking out. Talk to you all tommorrow.