All,

Not much anyone can do, but had to vent a bit.
I shot a doe last night, just before sunset. She was at most at 40ft and I had a perfect shot. I found the arrow full of blood. After she was hit, she darted off to the woods where I was expecting to find her very quickly.

After 7h of searching we have found nothing. At one point there were 5 of us looking. Bad thing it was raining so no blood trail.

This is my 1st shot ever at a live animal so feel kind of blue. Does this happen often? I have replayed the scene a thousand times and know my shot was good and hit the vitals (if not it was a narrow miss which I now have to think is what happened); I was stable and have taken many practice shots with my Excalibur.

That is all!

M.