Any time you shoot at an animal it's your responsibility to give a 150% at recovering that animal unless the initial look-see finds that it was definitely not hit (bullet is in a tree ahead of where the game was, etc.). Many times a deer or bigger game does not appear to have been hit, leaves no blood trail from where they were standing, and yet are dead on their feet and don't make it 100 yards from where they were hit. Good going and good example of not giving up without giving it that extra effort, as we owe it to the animals we hunt!