Opening morning I had a nice 8 point come sniffing around my stand. He hangs around for a while, no clue im there, so at 25 yards i let him have it with what i am positive is a good shot. I decide to give him some time and about 15-20 minutes later my buddy and I go looking for him and find puddles and puddles of blood, but no deer. We searched for 2 hours following this bright red blood trail until the blood stopped, but never found him. So my question is, does anyone have any suggestions or guesses as to what happened? My guess is that I just didn't give him enough time and we spooked him big time and he high tailed it way outta there...