I'll bite and give you some answers:
- I've shot more game with a bow than a rifle. I've taken 8 deer and an elk with a bow, lost 1 deer, tracked it for 4 hours, over a mile, pretty sure it dind't die.
- I've shot 4 deer with my rifle, lost one.
I just like bowhunting more.
You say you hit it perfect, wrong. You may have aimed perfect, but a perfect hit will put the deer down quickly. My elk was hit "perfect" and was on the ground in 40 yards, I know, it never left my sight.
When you lost your deer, how far did you track them, or did you? You don't sound like you've got much tracking experience since you say your gun kills go down immediately. Well it's a rare bow shot animal that goes down in sight, it happens, but you usually have to track 50-200 yards.
Did you track? How far? For how long?
It isn't the weapon, studies have shown approximately the same wound and not recovered rate for both gun and bow.
It's the operator, not the tool.