Hi & Welcome..
Add a blood light to your gear, it helps alot with spotting blood..
and i use lighted nock's as well. anything i can do to help me see and find my deer is well worth the extra $$..
sounds like a heartbreaker tho.
Because there is no bullet(i.e. ''CENTER-FIRE'' casing, powder, primer & bullet), a muzzleloader needs a 3 part to work with the barrel acting as the casing, with NO gun-powder.