I went into work early on Friday so I could leave work early. My plan was to go to a farm that I haven' t hunted yet this year, and mark a tree to hunt for the next morning. I got to the farm around 3P and quickly found ALOT of buck sign. Scrapes, rubs, ect. I marked 2 trees for the morning and decided to go ahead and hunt until dark. I was in the tree and set up by 5P. I forgot to mention that I checked the weather before I left work and the forcast had no rain in it until Saturday evening around 7P. So, anyway, at 5P on Friday, I was set up. At just before 7P, and nice 8 point walked in from behind me. He was relaxed and was eating accorns. He was headed directly toward my tree. At about 4 yards, he started acting spooky, but I could tell he had no idea why. He couldn' t see me, or smell me. The wind was in my favor and I had good cover. I guess he just had that feeling. At this point, I got nervous. I knew I had to make a decision. If I let him to another step or two, he' d be directly under me and I' d have no shot until he passed me. At that point, he would have a good chance of smelling whereI climbed the tree. If I shot him where he stood now (4 yards, facing me) I could shoot just behind the shoulderblades and get the lungs, maybe the heart , liver or spine. The more he stood there, the spookier he seemed. I decided to draw and take the shot. I' ve take that shot before and had good results with it. I took my time and put the pin right behind the shoulder blades, on the spine (I was pretty much shooting right down on him). At the shot, he stumbled, and ran into a blowdown, then continued running for about 30 yards and stopped and then walked away. I never heard him fall. I waited about 15 minutes and climbed down. I had a passthrough with lung blood on it. But no blood at the site of the hit. I followed his tracks to the last place I saw him, but didn' t find any blood. I did find some clear liquid splattered here and there and a chunk of something. I' m not sure what the chunk was, but it looked like lung.
I decided since it was getting dark, it wasn' t supposed to rain until the next night and the temp was cool, I decided to come back in the morning with a friend to track him. WELL, it was a long night!! I woke up at 4A to find that the weatherman had been wrong. It was pouring down rain and continued to do so until about 10A. We searched for bllod, but of course there wasn' t any. It had washed away. We searched around the entire ridge until 2:30P, but never found this deer. I firmly believe I hit 1 lung. I firmly believe the deer is dead. I believe I had a good chance of finding him if the blood trail wouldn' t have been washed away. I can' t believe I can' t find this deer. We searched everwhere and ran out of places to look. We looked in blowdown, thickets, rockpiles, ect. The only place we couldn' t search well was a huge waste high grass field. You could literally trip over a deer in this grass and never know what it was. There were multiple places where it looked like something entered the field, but we couldn' t find anything.

Ok, guys let me have it!! Tell me how the shot was low percentage!!!

I' m sick inside. This is the first deer I have ever hit with the bow that I couldn' t find and it was a nice one. 14-16 inches wide, nice tall tines.

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