Timbercuiser, if there is one thing I have learned over the 20+ years I have been at this it is you always need to give the game time, we actually backed out and gave him 3 hours after the shot and in my mind that was more than enough since I actually heard the bullet hit saw the buck jump like 10 feet off the ground on impact. we went in found hte trail found a spot where he stood and had tremendous amount of blood then a beed and he got up and walked off. At that point I convinced my buddy to back out and leave him for the night. Upon our return in the morning we picked up the trail went half more or so found two more beds where he laid down and coyotes bumped him, he actually went full circle back near the original bed past where we shot him and continued for a couple miles across a series of 200+ acres corn and bean fields wooded hedgrows etc. across a road nad into a brushlot where we lost him. Not only was the trail almost impossible to follow but with the insane distance he covered we certainly gave it a 200% effort and I feel good about that just witha disappointing end but that's part of the game sometimes.