The thought of a miss occured to me. It was just the deer kickin up like that the made me feel so certain I hit her. Weapon is a Marlin 30-30 shooting 170 Grain winchester power points. I spent a lot of time with it at the range getting it dialed in. IT's amazingly accurate at 100 yards. I felt pretty strongly that it would be near impossible for the deer to take that and not bleed. I would have taken my dogs (house dogs) out there to sniff around for it if I lived closer to that hunting area but I didn't get back till several hours after dark, and the next day I couldn't get out there. I will be back out there this weekend and I will likely be hunting down in that same spot. Hope