I wasn't there. I'm also having a hard time deciphering exactly where you hit the deer......but a 30 degree quartering angle is no "chip shot". From 20 feet up and 10 yds out....it's not a bad shot, though.

If I understand you to say you aimed and think you hit somewhere near the leg, though.....you started out way too forward for a shot at a quartering away deer. Maybe I'm not understaning what you're describing.