If you hadnt dropped it theres no saying it even would have been recovered.I shot a big doe during a deer drive several years back that was hit high up like that, bullet had clipped her spine but she was still going.She ran towards me and I could see she had a wound, figured one of our guys had shot her so I put her down.Turned out the wound was old, she had been shot days earlier, probably during shotgun season {this was late muzzleloader season}.Had to throw out one of the backstraps because it was infected and festering there were bone chips from the vertabres in the meat, never woulda figured a deer could run with a wound like that much less stay on her feet days after but theyre pretty remarkable sometimes