I shot a doe with one of those ballistic tips once and when it hit her rib, everything exploded out towards the point of impact. Really bizarre. I heard the hit like somebody smashing two rocks together and instantaneously saw this red outward explosion. Entrance was huge, no exit at all.

Hopefully you was just off a little that day and just got a piece of the front shoulder. Loosing a deer is no fun. I have and that's part of hunting. Had a perfect 180 yard shot on a nice doe. Found hair and nothing else. I was sick and pissed at myself.

I have been through this before. I took a 90 yard shot on a doe quartering away. The doe kicked and ran off, left me nothing but bone and the slightest blood trail possible. No luck finding her.

So discovered at 100yds my rifle was hitting 4" to the left and about 2" low. Good guess is I hit the buck in front of the shoulder and hopefully in the brisket. Praying hes not mortally wounded.

I had almost the identical shot opening weekend except the buck was about 200 yds away. When I shot there was no hitting sound and he did not kick or hump up. Looked a long time but didn't find blood or hair anywhere. Still concerned because he disappeared after that and never showed back up on camera anywhere. He was a feeder hog and was always near a feeder. Still sickens me just thinking about it. Probably would have been my biggest whitetail.

I like the way you desribed that LOL. Personally ive never heard the impact but my furthest kill shot is about 150 yards on a pig and he was DRT just ask Erath.

If the buck kicked you hit him.... and usually in the mids

Iv gotten to were I can hear the pop everytime.. love that THAAAWAAAAP

Is this with or without hearing protection?

Without

Had the exact same thing for me. 25-06 hornady. Same angle and range. Mine kicked and dropped front shoulder and ran in woods. Waited 30 mins friend saw it and said it was a good hit. Jumped it. Backed out waited 2 hrs. Jumped it. Waited 3 hrs jumped it never saw it or blood again. My guess is it went through front should on out ner breast plate never hitting vitals.

It sucks when you have a deer run on you. Luckily, i have yet to experience that feeling with a whitetail. Few hogs have ran off to never be found. Sometimes i hear the smack of the bullet, sometimes not, of course i run everything suppressed, which helps a bunch!

Got him on camera this past Monday and Tuesday. He's alive and well!

Good deal

Can you see any marks on him to give you an idea of where you might have hit?

outstanding....hope you get another shot at him.

Man, I switched my loads this year on my .270 WSM from Winchester hollowpoint 140 gr. to a fusion 150 gr. soft point.
All the years I shot hollow points, the deer dropped in their tracks like a bomb went off inside them. This year all three deer I have shot have run with little to no blood where the deer were shot. Finding them laying in a puddle of blood. The first doe I shot , would have never found her but I knew exactly where she ran, and it was into some heavy brush. Saturday, I hit another doe, this time in a wide open pasture at 300 yrds broadside. The doe shot up in the air and did the " I'm hit " Dance for about 20 yrds, again, no blood on the ground where whe was shot, but laying in a puddle of it. this was a double lung and heart shot. I like the flatness of the round, but the expansion and shock is just not doing it for me. Don't give up and good luck