I just read through this whole thread and I am really questioning whether the white hair you found at the POI was actually off of the buck you shot at. In your first photo one of the pieces of white hair is actually underneath two pieces of leaf litter. Not to say that the buck couldn't have kicked something over it but my gut feeling says it may have been purely coincidence that you found that hair at the area where you shot at him. There's a lot of other details that lead to the possibility of a clean miss, even though it seems hard for you to believe that you would have missed it at that range. If you searched that area as thoroughly as you decribed and actually put that slug into the chest cavity chances are you would have found your buck dead. That straight on frontal shot is not an easy one for sure. It's always tough to deal with these kinds of situations but it is also very important to be able to chalk it up to experience and carry on.
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