Follow the trail that you heard him run....look for beds as gutshot deer bed down quite frequently due to the discomfort/lack of strength....Not sure how the Florida woods are these days, but if you have alot of red/yellow changing leaves, it can make finding blood fairly hard....find one bed of blood and start moving slowly in the direction you heard him run or believe he might have used to escape....next time maybe weight 8 hours, then walk in real slow, stopping every 20 yards or so. Use your binoculars if you have them to scan the area...if you see him/or her still alive, mark the spot and back out again....then return in the morning and you will find that deer dead fairly close.

Also, if you have any water sources near thick stuff in the direction he ran..check that up and down...I unfortunately gutshot a buck 5 years ago...I could not find any blood after 40 yards...I started looking after 2 hours...big mistake....I found him the next day, 10 hours later laid up underneath a tree by a creek...I could barely see his antlers as they looked like sticks...I almost never found him. He was a special deer as he was the first deer I ever shot with a bow.

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