Heart Broken.......

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I went elk hunting completely solo this last weekend. Friday night while hunting the thickest draw of trees I've ever hunted, I called in a really nice 5x5 bull to 20 yards where he started to destroy a sapling. While he took his frustrations out on the baby tree I moved to where I thought I could get a shot. Just as I stepped out in to the opening and drew my bow back, he stopped rubbing and stepped out 10 yards in front of me with a perfect opening in the trees right over his vitals. I let the arrow fly and drilled him. I heard the arrow hit and seen my pink fletchings hanging out a few inches. I waited about 30 minutes and was pretty sure I heard him crash. and started to try and find blood................ nothing, zilch, notta. I shot him at 6pm and stayed up there till 930pm looking for blood. I decided to back out and start looking again in the morning. I got back up top at 5:30am the next morning. And worked grid patterns out from where I shot. After hours of finding absolutely nothing I decided to head towards where I had thought I heard him crash. Turned up empty handed again. Went back to where I shot him again and worked a few more grid patterns and I couldn't find anything. I stayed up there till 1230pm. Sunday I went back up just to see if I could see birds or any sign. Again nothing.

I'm really bent out off shape over this. Actually sick to my stomach. I'm curious if anybody has had any trouble with slick trick broadheads opening a wound channel? A few years ago I shot a cow with slicktricks and almost had the same thing happen. My buddy and I actually just got lucky and stumbled on her after looking for her for three hours and only finding two small drops of blood. I don't want to be the guy to blame equipment failures for anything but I have to try and make sense of this crappy situation.

I'm going to head up on Thursday after work again and see if I can see birds or anything.
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