Yea I hear ya.. this year was tough for me .
Killed a nice doe opening day , the. Two days later went to get one for a family I am friends with .
Shot a doe and hit it but never found it ..I did all the right things tracking it. I had some blood and hair ..
Think I hit her in the leg..
I waited , followed the blood, it stopped ..I made three passes thru the woods from one end to the other , up and down wicked steep ravines ...
I spent almost three hours ..i left and went back the next morning and spent over two hours covering every inch I could ...
Sweating like a pig up and down super steep banks , every brush pile and thicket ..
Never found her ... it still bothers me more than the ones I’ve killed