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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.
I was thinking the same thing maybe the shot was a little too far forward for a quartering away shot. So then possibly you went just below the spine and lodge into the shoulder blade? With the shot so high on the deer it will be tough to find blood, but Im thinking you should of caught atleast one lung! Thus meaning the hole is high possibly arrow plugging the hole and if not its still bleeding out into the chest cavity...internally! Its so tough though to sit here and say though. May just be to far forward caught the shoulder blade and did not penetrate...deer will survive! Hope this helps!