I've shot a dozen or so deer with the "high shoulder" shot and some ran away some dropped in their tracks. Sometime ago I decided that there is just too much waste if I shot those shoulder blades, If I can I shoot for neck, I like that shot but generally I like to put my crosshairs right behind that knucle of their front leg and let'em have it.
I have only retrieved bullets from that "high shoulder" shgot , usually just under the off-side skin, as the rib-shot is always a pass-through.
