Originally Posted by
Lonehunter61
I had this happen to a doe the other year she went down on the spot got back up and ran ansd jumped into the corn field and i never did find her and there were 4 of looking and there was no blood when she went into the corn anywhere. This happens to diff people I hunt with too
I caution evaluating a bullet on a deer that is not found. No matter how well you felt about the shot, if you don't find it you don't know. I've helped track a lot of deer people swore were hit good, but when you finally find them it was a terrible shot. No deer shot through the lungs is going to travel hundreds of yards.
But as someone else stated, if you've lost faith in any part of your equipment you should replace it. Doubt in the field only increases the odds of something going wrong.