A few year back I had a buddy shoot a deer "in the shoulder", dang deer ran off...We searched for him and never found him...
A couple of weeks later my brother was hunting the other side of the farm and killed a deer that had been shot in the shoulder...
From his discription of the rack we believe it was the same deer...

Seems the deer was quartering away and the bullet never made it into the chest cavity...Now, this deer was hit with a 130 gr bullet from a .270...Just goes to show some strange things can happen when hunting...