I don’t remember if I’ve posted this or not. I’d say 3 years ago my son shot one high shoulder and it dropped like a rock, but kept shaking its head. We stood there and watched it for 30-45 seconds and I was just about to get down and go check it out. I opened the door and took one last look before I headed down the ladder and it stood up and started running off. I hurried a shot and hit it good and killed it. When we cleaned it, his shot has clipped the top of the shoulder blade by about 1” but missed the vitals. I have no doubt we would have never found that deer if I hadn’t of put the second shot into him. I always aim for the boiler room. I understand that high shoulder will drop them, I also understand it’s outside of the vitals (can be). Imo