First buck I ever shot was a experience similar, but not as bad and had a happy ending. I learned a lot about string jump on that first buck. I had only been Hunting with a CB for two years or so, I think I was 18 or 19. Looking back I think the deer was only 25 yards away. I was on the ground with a huge rotten stump behind me. The buck had came out of a woods and was walking away from me when I hit a grunt tube, he turned on a dime and came right at me. At about the 25 yard mark he stopped and was quartering to me a little with his left shoulder lung side when I shot. The bolt went in on his right rear hip! I watched the buck jump and pivot on his back legs faster the the arrow could get there. I did not know it at the time though. I assumed he pivoted from being hit in the lungs. He ran off into the sunrise and I had no blood. Being new to this I made a second mistake, I got up and went right after him. No blood at all, so I just walked in his direction. About three hundred yards away I ran across a path that looked liked someone turned on a garden hose of blood, my arrow found that big artery after he ran for a while. I fallowed the blood, and there was my deer, down with my arrow in his right rear hip. I was amazed that a deer could do a 180 in the time it took my old super mag Horton to get there, but he did. Like I said, I was aiming at his left front, and it hit his right rear. After that Ihave never shot at a deer past 15 yards. I say 20 is my desired shot distance, and 30 my max, but all my deer have come close, and I like that. I will never forget what that buck did and how lucky I was to get him.