Thanx for the reply. I wasnt real concerned about the lack of a blood trail because I have seen that happen before as well. The one thing that bothers me was that some of the stringy type blood was covering the fletchings as if the arrow went all the way through the deer and not back out of the deer. And if it did go through the deer why wouldnt there have been good blood on the flecthing. The arrow had no gut smell or slime on it so I really doubt it hit gut at all. I guess I will never know unless I see the deer again.