I shot a nice 4yr-5yr old buck this morning with my bow. He was cruising fast and he didn't want to stop in my clear shooting lanes. He finally stopped almost broadside , just a few degrees quartering to me if that. I shot him at 32yd and he turned towards me more (slightly) at arrow impact. IMO, it looked no more than 10-20 degree quartering. The arrow hit about 1/3 of the way up in the middle of his shoulder meat. I thought he was drilled, heart shot. He ran about 80yd and stood for a min, I lost sight after that. I sat for about 3hrs and got down to look for him. Unfortunately the arrow only penetrated about 12" and backed out broad head and all. We followed good steady blood to where I saw him standing after the shot, there were pools of blood there. We found where he bedded about 10 yards farther, the blood then became kinda spotty. We looked for about 5 hrs and found another pool of blood about 75yd away but it didn't look like a bed, he was just standing still. I'm obviously going back tomorrow and expect to find him.

Is 12" enough to touch his heart? Or is it a single lung shot? The blood looked like good lung blood with bubbles, it was frozen solid. First time I've seen a blood trail freeze.