i had somthing simular happen to me last sept 28th. I shot a doe right in the vidales a little high but enough to penitrate. The doe ran right by my friend and stoped. he had not known that i had shot the deer kand he drew back to take a shot and release his arrow but missed it. The deer ran for about another 200yrds and looked back at his tree and just vanished. we found tonz of blood. And waited a couple of hours to go find it but never did. What we think happend was it ran until it dropped and iv heard that if a wounded deer is "frightend' that they can run for miles until the drop dead. But i dont know