I had a really nice 10 come in this morning. My gun hit my stand when I was raising it and he spooked and trotted 15 yds behind some brush. He finally stepped out and I shot and he bucked and ran off. While he was running I noticed his tail up. Not a good sign from past experiences. I went to where he was standing. Nothing. I followed his tracks about 300 yds and found 1 spot of watery blood. At that point he was walking like nothing happened. I looked and looked nothing. So dismayed I started to walk back to my truck. I was about 50 yds from my truck and I notice a huge track in the sand and it hits me. Wow that looks like the track from the buck I just shot. I look up and he's 30 yds in front of me just walking down the logging road. I tried to take a shot but he spooked put his tail up and jumped in the thick brush. I just stood there in disbelief. If it was the same buck which I think it was. He made a complete circle and walked by the same stand I shot him out of 2 hrs earlier. I think he'll be back. His tracks are all over. Obviously he wasn't spooked. Just wanted to get all your thoughts. I just have this fear that he laying in the woods dead and that was just a different buck. To me nothing worse then leaving a deer in the woods.