I gut shot one with my bow last friday and it took me 7 hours to find him. There was very little blood where I shot him. I looked all over our woods and never found him. I didnt push him so I figured he'd lay down within 200 yards and die... WRONG. Later in the day I checked a trail that crosses between our woods and our neighbors probably 2 or 300 yards from where I shot him and there was a blood trail rite across the road. He ended up goin through that woods crossing a creek and a hay field layed down got up and died about 40 yards later. It can be really tough I know I walked 10 yards rite beside where he was laying and never saw him because of the grass he was laying in he's prolly rite under your nose but a wounded deer can go a long way even if they arent pushed. A wounded deer in shock can cover a lot of ground walking aimlessly very slowly. Bucks can get a long way from there home and sometimes I think wounded ones may just be trying to get back to there home turf but who knows. If you havent lost a deer you havent hunted long enough it happens to the best of us. You just owe it to the animal to do everything you can to find it and sometimes thats not enough.