The " Meat on the limbs" part makes me think you may have hit somewhere other than the shoulder area. Regardless he is gone now. Just curious about something, a hunting friend of mine shot a odd racked buck a few years ago in the shoulder with a .257 Roberts. The deer ran off. The next fall he shot the same odd racked buck in the same area with a neck shot and killed him. When he dressed the deer there was the bullet, a red tipped ballistic tip, splattered on the shoulder bone area. Were you using a ballistic tipped bullet?