bad luck in late archery hunt

[money794]

k welll it was my 1st archery hunt and i saw a white tail doe and she was about 50 yards away and i stuck her with an arrow and  than she ran for a bit than she stopped and grabbed the arrow with her mouth and ripped it out of her  and than we tracked her for a long time and she was barely bleeding  and we couldn find her . im pretty sure she survived she was barely bleeding and wouldn stop running the only good thing bout the hunt was we saw this mule deer it was a 4x4 and about 30 inches wide ! only 30 yards away but i couldn shoot him cuz it was only white tail =[ 

[Grizzly95]

Ya win and lose sometimes. Where did you hit her? How much penetration? You're gonna catch some hell, but let it make you a better hunter.

[ldjbuff]

If you hit the deer in the lungs, there is a good chance she wont make it. Do you practice out to 50 yards? Do you have good groupings? I have been hunting for 13 years and with my bow I have my limits on how far of a shot I will take.

[FullDraw]

Many times there is no blood because they are bleeding internally and their body cavity is filling up.

[DoubleJ]

She's dead.  Her skin closed up over the wound and she bled out internally.

[woodswalker]

That sounds like a longish shot to me...tho not knowing your practice habits and setup I cant say for sure...but at 50 yards a fast. light arrow has lost a lot of its energy.  Penetration might be lacking if the deer was able to get the shaft out....did the broadhead come with it?  

Think I'd recommend (again not knowing your setup) that heavier arrow and/or closer shot with pass through penetration might bag you a deer more reliably instead of dead or wounded critters in the woods...  

[steelhead13]

Where was the deer hit? I can tell you from experience that there are a couple of places that a deer may survive but most of the time she will bleed out inside just like DoubleJ said.  I have tracked elk that have quit bleeding and have found them dead 500 yds from the spot i lost blood.