From that picture I'd say he shot a sheep.[8D][8D]

Aside from that, it's hard to say. There's a lot you can hit that'll produce a lot of blood as long as it keeps moving. If it stops it has time to clot up and may not start again. They also tend to run out of blood with these periferal shots just before they drop for good. I would go to the last spot and do a grid search for about 75 yards if you can't find any more blood. Without more info as to angle and all that it's hard to say. Muscles can bleed like crazy for a while, so can noses, broken jaws etc.

Another option if you dont find him, get one yourself and then tell the boy you found his. Lose the tape though, he might want to see it again and be able to tell it wasn't his. I did this for my son's second deer. He had to go back to school and I found his two days later slightly chewed up by the coyotes. Same day I spotted a deer of comparable size and dropped it. Dressed it and took it home to the boy. Boy was he happy.

No NO NO NO NO.... have we resorted to just plain telling lies to make people feel good. NOTHING works better than the truth. You screw up.... you should know about it and feel it.

As long as the weather is around 50's or cooler,
the deer should last 48 hours as long as theres not alot of predators.
Like Davidmil said do a grid search,like I said before MOST
bucks will go for water (creeks,ponds)or beading area's(heavy cover)
tell us where the last place you seen blood was,and what type of terrain
is surounding that area.Standing corn is a heavy cover area and it's fairly simple to find a wounded dear there.Blood will be(from where the shot was placed)around waist high.look for broken stalks as he will by that time be disoriented.
If not don't lie to the fella,just make him practice a little more.That close to the sweet spot for your first buck ,is too good of a shot to give up !
Everone get's buck fever when they see a good one(and to him that WAS a good one!)like someone else said let him read these posts of this thread and he'll see that it's happen to alot of people.
I lost a good 8 point once,he ran into such heavy cover I couldn't find him!
I found him about 3 weeks later when a buck I shot ran to the same area
and I found the one I shot 3 weeks earlier,while looking for the one i shot.
unfortunatly ,all that was left was skeletal,so I kept the horns.

Did we find this ONE???????

anything new happening

Nope sorry i thought i replied before. Guess not, i actually saw this deer the other night. He was walking just fine and seemed to have nothing wrong with him.

LOT OF BIG ARTERYS AROUND THE UPPER FRONT SHOLDER AND BASE OF THE NECK ... I WOULD SAY YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE OF RECOVERING HIM IF THERE IS A GOOD BLOOD TRAIL ..

GOOD LUCK
DD

I thought the same thing DD but i saw the buck a cuple of nights agoand he was walking around perfectly fine. Hopefully he isn't bleeding internaly and die. But after 24 hours you would think that he would be hurten real bad and he was walking around just fine.

IF you seen him walking around and stuff... Thats good