Losing the "buck of a lifetime"

[Catfish]

Many years ago I had a friend that put and arrow through a BIG 12 point buck just before noon. It was cold and he had good snow cover and was sure the deer would not go far, so he went home, ate lunch and came back about 1 hr. later. The trail was not hard to follow in the snow with the amount of blood he was losing you could see the trail 100 yrds in frount of you. He tracked the deer untill dark. He went home, ate dinner and went back out. He tracked the deer untill 2:30 am. before he went home and to bed. Next morning he was back out at day lite and went about 50 yrds. before he jumped the deer. The bed looked like someone had dumped a 5 gal. bucket of bolld in it. He found only 2 more drops of blood after that. He followed the trcks another 2 miles before the deer got into a woods that had so many tracks it was imposible to track. He spent the rest of that day walking that woods but never found the deer. He was down in the dumps for 2 weeks about killing a deer that big and not being able to find it. He cheared up when the old guy that lived where he was hunting told him the 12 point was back up where he had shot it. What I`m saying is don`t be to sure you killed that deer. They are tough critters.