re: Finding blood

Well then consider yourself lucky. Plenty of deer are shot and killed without leaving a trace of blood at the impact site. My son shot one a couple weeks back. Not a single drop of blood within 75 yds of where the deer was shot. Small puddle where the deer lay dead 75 yds away. My daughter's bow kill was a liver shot. First blood was about 10 yds from where it was shot.

If you look for blood at impact spot only and don't search in the direction the deer traveled for a couple hundred yards, then you are not being a responsible hunter in my opinion. Some will disagree, but I have seen it happen enough to know you will not always find blood in the immediate area.