At that range at that steep of an angle, if you didn't hit heart, you will have only gotten one lung at best. You had to shoot through a lot of bone to even get toitthough, so it doesn't surprize be that you didn't get good penetration. You won't get much blood from this hit because there was not an exit wound and the entrance was high.

Will the deer live? Who knows. They have been known to live on one lung. Tracking time wasn't a bad thing on this hit, so don't beat yourelf over it.

If you have not read the book "tracking wounded deer" by Trout, make sure you do.

Will you take this shot again?