The loud smack is bone, so is the nock flying off. If you are that confident in where you saw blood, I’d guess you hit a rib dead center, or the elbow.
Arrow could have travelled outside the ribcage, and most likely stayed in the hole, which makes blood trailing very difficult. Could also be stuck in a good double lung shot that didn’t connect with an artery, and with the arrow in place didn’t cause a pneumothorax. Had that one happen to a mulie doe and the damn thing went several km over 3 hours (and that one was a pass through).
Other possibility is the arrow broke up on contact. Less likely at 40 but strange things happen.
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