I was going to suggest using a softer bullet in the future until I went back and read page 1 to see that he used a BT. At 150 yards even with a .260 it should have penetrated better than that. I hit an 8 point too far back once and while it went down within a hundred yards, it got back up again and ran for a creek bed 1/4 mile away by GPS measurement. The only way I had to track that deer after a sparse blood trail was that broken gut smell in the air. Use all your senses. Cracked him again as he ran out of that creek bed. I always go after them right away if I think that the shot was good. Switching to softer bullets has resulted in shorter or no tracking. In snow you can run them out of blood if you stay on them. Got a leg shot deer that way that others had given up on. Tracked another one by the hair cut off by the bullet when it got in with other deer tracks.
