I walked up to the impact site, there was blood all over, a little over one hour from the shot, we started the trail. It leaded about 200 yards down hill, to where we found the buck had bedded, good blood but he continued on. He turned up hill, bedded two more times where we found more pools of blood. After about 1/2 mile of trailing the buck we were coming up on 5pm. We decided to give the buck the night. We hiked back to our spike camp, picked up our gear and headed closer to where we had last marked the trail. It was cloudy before we went to bed and I prayed for no rain that evening. In the morning at first light, we picked up the blood trail. The buck moved horizonitally for a few hundred yards then headed towards the creek, after about 1/3 mile, the blood trail started to get very light and eventually we lost it.... I spent the remaining 4 days of hunt looking for eagles/ravens/coyotes but the buck never turned up. Thankful for the opportunity but a very painful experience.