ORIGINAL: avengerboy
I have switched to the barnes bullets and shot a doe with one and it was the best bullet i've used so far we found big chunks of bonein the chest cavity from the shoulder. Yes i did hit that deer because we found blood and a chunk of flesh in the fresh snow and then the blood stoped and a week later a buddy saw it walking around fine but had a chunk of flesh missing.
It's hard to learn much from that. It could have been the angle he hit it at only grazed off a chunk. Even assuming the bullet impacted the shoulder blade at a 90 degree angle broadside and fragmented, I can't imagine that deer would be walking around fine. That shoulder would be busted. When they get away, it's really impossible to know what happened.