maybe I did miss and my arrow is just lost in the 4 foot high grass!So thats what I ment when I said I'll never know the real truth because I can't find the arrow,which we all know is bowhunting no matter if your arookie or seasoned hunter!Almost every person that has spent some time bowhunting has had some weird and off the wall events happen to them at some time during a hunt!
I completely agree with you there. Its amazing how tough those arrows can be to find, even on occasions where I found the deer, I've lost arrows that came out along the trail and my best efforts never found them. (Back in the day with those old school camo aluminums & fall colored fletch)
To clarify about the "that's just part of it" phrase, I sometimes think that too many people use that excuse when the effort to find the deer becomes difficult, not saying that was the case here, but just what I seem to have picked up bypeople in general. If they don't find the deer withing 75 yds, "well that's just bowhunting".