Well, my season will be cut short due to surgery next week. Anyway, I went out this afternoon, and just before quitting time, was able to get a shot on a pretty big doe. Quartering away, 25 yards, saw the hit and it looked good, right where I was aiming. The arrow flew true, and the fletch disappeared where it struck, about center of the rib cage, and 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. The doe ran off with her twin fawns from this spring, a small doe and a button buck. She definitely ran strange, with the rear end loose and wobbly. The three deer ran out of the field, and into the woods, then down into the really thick part of the woods. I heard cracking branches, then a really loud crash. When I went to the hit site, I did not find the arrow, which surprised me. It looked like it went right through. I did not find any blood either. It was starting to get dark, so I went to where I saw the doe leave the field. There also, no blood at all![:@]

I kept looking around more carefully, and I found three places that were wet. I touched the clear-looking liquid and smelled it. It was clearly deer urine. I could see where there were fresh deer tracks in the woods, so I followed them for a while until it started to get too thick to walk easily. Still no blood, only one more splat of urine. With light failing, and only a flashlight to go by and again NO BLOOD, I decided to wait until morning to try to get on the trail again. If the deer fell where I heard the loud crash, then I feel like I have the location within 20-30 yard radius. The crash occurred maybe 75 - 80 yards from the hit site. I just didn' t want to blunder in and bump the deer if she was not dead as I think she is. Also it is confusing as to what happened to the arrow. I definitely saw the fletch disappear into the ribs of the deer. I am using short arrows (27" ) this year, but that is still a lot of arrow to be contained inside the body of a deer. The only thing I can think of is that the broadhead might have lodged in the off-side shoulder or the breastbone.
If it did exit, there should have been a lot of blood with the hit where it was.[:' (]

First light tomorrow, I will be back at it. Just wondering what any of you think might have happened. Thanks.