Good luck CS. I've wounded 3 bucks in 50 plus years with the bow,not fun. My last one was a 160 class buck in Ohio about 12 years ago,I got tremendous blood for a hundred yards,then I jumped him out of his bed. Rookie mistake,never found a drop of blood after that,looked for the better part of a week. Looked for crows or buzzards without much luck. Even looked the following spring for a skeleton. It's a very sick feeling. I hope your story ends better than mine.

Three all days sits and zero deer seen. No bucks. No does. No deer. Frustrated as heck. I have hunted my best stand and my second best stand and am drawing blanks. 
 
Took the morning off to wait for this windy front and rain to move through, vote, mentally regroup, then headed out this afternoon to get back at it. 
 
 

CS- Same thing happened to my buddy last week in my best stand. He stuck a decent 8 high in the back. He's sick over it. He calls me up the other day to tell me that he thinks he needs to buy lighted nocks, I laughed and said, spend your $$$ on a range finder. In the 20 years I've been archery hunting, I've done it twice. I feel for you guys. Good luck on the recovery. Hound dogs sound like a good idea.
 
BH

I also took the morning off. I saw one lone doe on 6 hour sit yesterday.

Dpms I can relate to the regrouping thing I am taking day off from the hunt and getting some work done I am seeing deer just not the rights ones.
Had a 4pt grunting and chasing a doe around 430 pm yesterday but that was highlight of day.I like the weather forcast for end of season GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!   wcw

Hope you're buddy ended up better than me Mr. Crappie. Spent the entire morning searching high and low with my mom. Checked everywhere, blowdowns, every thick little nasty place I thought he might lay down if he was gonna die, grid searched the entire woods. Came up blank. Again no blood last night, and a pretty good rain last night probably washed any away that was there. Was at least hoping I'd find my bolt snapped off, but nothing. Pretty discouraged. My only hope is that judging from him dropping like a rock at first, and then getting up and tearing off is that i hit him over top of the spine, hitting some of the bone that sticks up and the backstrap. I shoot a 20" bolt, and when he ran back past me only 5-6" of it was covered up with the fletchings sticking out one side, and the rest of it sticking out the other. After I go to work for a few hours ill probably come back and make another search in vain. My best hope is that it was just a meat shot, he got the bolt out, and over the next few weeks maybe I get a pic of him.

crappie slayer Last year my son hit a approx 130" er too high & searched for 2 days nada,then about 5 days later the buck started to show up on camera limping a little & very skittish then later looked a lot better but with a visible scar Then seen it again in rifle season at night with no visable effects. So there is a good chance that yours will be back. Hope so,it has happened to most of us.  sam

dpms
Three all days sits and zero deer seen. No bucks. No does. No deer. Frustrated as heck. I have hunted my best stand and my second best stand and am drawing blanks. 
 
Took the morning off to wait for this windy front and rain to move through, vote, mentally regroup, then headed out this afternoon to get back at it. 
 
 

Wow, thought I was the only one not seeing deer.  Saw one deer last night.   Didn't go out in the rain this morning.  Will go out later this afternoon.   No son of bucks chasing in my neck of the woods yet.  Hopefully today.

Over 30 hours on stand without seeing a deer. They are there at night, 15 different bucks over the last two weeks, but nothing, save for a lone doe, caught on camera, during the day.

Scrape lines are well established and being used. They just need to come out during the daylight.

Poured hard here until an hour ago. Heading out this afternoon. Still deciding whether to go to the treehouse near the creek bottom, which has had the most buck activity or the ground blind near the field edge that has had less activity, but is normally a better evening spot.

Corn still standing on about 20 of the 30 acres we normally hunt 
 
Saw a doe and two skippers exit the corn a couple hundred yards away and feed in the neighbor's cut corn about an hour before it got dark.  Also saw a buck slip out of a different row of corn right as light was fading and head off to another neighbor's property.  
 
I guess I need to get my son a stand set up in our back yard at night with a spotlight.  Over the last couple of days, a buck has torn up some of our young maples pretty well.