now wait a minute, let me clear a couple of things up! this is not my first rodeo, i have shot deer before with my bow, and found them quite easily. in this case, the deer knew that something was up, because it had seen me coming through the trees, it just didn't know exactly where i was, or what. this deer was ready to run. if given the same chance again, the thing i would do differently is place the shot just a little farther back, so that it went diagonally through the vitals. if i thought that it was going to go back to feeding, however, i would have waited for a different shot.