ORIGINAL: waiting_for_a_gift
I'd look some more, but there's a good chance you won't find him. If you had a decent chest wound with a truly sharp broadhead, you would have found him last night. I think you probably hit shoulder tissue as your thread title suggests. There's typically a lot of blood at first, then you lose em. I've seen deer hit in shoulder with 30-06 that we didn't recover.
So the 30-06 didnt break his shoulder eh? I find it hard to believe that any deer hit in the shoulder with anything heavier than a .243 wouldnt die. If you dont mind me asking, does anyone else know of an instance where a deer was hit in the shoulder with a rifle and didnt die?