Has anyone ever shot a deer with a rifle that when the deer ran off it had its tail up?

nope,

but i don't shoot a 6.5 crd either....

That's called a miss.

I am only joking..

I have seen it before typically it's a miss but not always.

My son shot one Saturday he thought was broad side but maybe not as much as he thought. Deer ran a circle after being shot with tail up and bounced out of the field.

He clipped the heart but bullet came out in the gut. She went about 50 yards and died.

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Whats bugging me is if I went far enough with my circles?

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How far did you go? I think if I was going to make a guess I would say that 95% of the dead deer have been within 200yd of impact after 200yd chances of finding one are slim.

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150 yards from the shot location in the darkness

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Nighttime is tough it’s easy to miss blood or disturbed leaves or even one just piled up in some brush.

If you double lung and don't hit bone, sometimes I swear I think they just think they were whacked by something and don't know they are fatally wounded. Mostly with a bow with a super sharp broadhead I have seen this.

I've shot multiple deer with a bow that run and then stop and then walk, almost like they were just scared. Then they eventually die.

I don't know about most of the time, but very very often if you shoot and there are other deer around the other deer don't immediately react to the shot. They just stand around slightly alert looking around. I've shot deer with other deer standing right next to it, and the other deer just stood there. Same thing with turkeys, hell other toms will attack a tom that's been shot.

So if you shot and it immediately reacted, I would say there's a good chance you hit it.

You’ve missed more than two deer in 30 years or you haven’t hunted very much during that time. With a rifle, always assume a hit. Go look for buzzards.

That’s exactly how many I missed. I will never attempt to shoot a running deer I just don’t have that talent. So all the deer I’ve shot have either been walking or stopped. I don’t use a gun rest maybe I should get one. The buck was quartering away looking at me over his shoulder (I’ve made this shot many times). The buck was about 70 yards away. For the first time in years I was unable to see the bucks reaction after the shot. Just saw it leaping through the woods with the tail up. Shot was made at 5:15pm. I’ve also never lost a deer I’ve shot.

unless those palmettos were really thick the deer didnt have to hit them if he did then he was hit-- the terrain looks thicker when you are up in a stand if you didnt have to walk through them when you were searching then he was hit PS iwas hunting with a game warden he shot a big 7 three hours and two hills later the third shot dropped him-- first two shots were good lung shots -- some just dont want to die