This is opinion.  I hit a buck in KS in the same spot with a "good whitetail broadhead" a 160 Snuffer.  Pretty sure it hit the offside shoulder.  Went 80 yards and fell over.  WW's are too narrow.  On the other hand they fly well.  I just like a big hole.

Bowmania

That's one big doe

that thing looks like a horse   congrats

Big doe...and ultimately an excellent job recovering her.

Gobs of blood vessels around the heart.

As already stated, this is a testament to sharp...sharp is cool, and so is a last minute, late season deer!

Professional bowhunting!!!  

Wonder if you clipped the back of the shoulder bone on entry and hit the front of the off side shoulder bone.. May have dulled the blade that was in position to do the most damage. Looks like a great shot to me...

I have killed a few that left me guessing as to why they lasted as long as they did. And I don't think anyone hunts with sharper broadheads than I do..

Good job she's a horse

Nice doe! It is sometimes surprising how far they can go in a short time.  Were any of the tracks running.  I've had guys tell me if they are not down in 200 yds they didn't die.  Have you ever seen how fast a deer covers 200 yds?

Nice recovery.  You may have pushed her a bit on the effort for a quick recovery.

Mike

Sometimes the good Lord smiles on us!

Congrats on a great doe.  Nice recovery.

What a wonderful Christmas gift...

Nice doe, congrats!!

Deer are tough animals...some tougher than others...congrats!

Way to go Bryce!

If I had to give an opinion on the hit...I don't think I could say it any better than Jack or Lin.

Nice shot, and a merry christmas for the freezer.

It is always amazing to me how different the outcome can be from one shot to the next on deer.

One deer will only go 40yds. and the next 300 yards from an arrow placement that looked the same.

Congrats on a nice doe.

Wish I had something definitive to tell you all, but I don't.  While I'm curious as can be, 'REAL LIFE' has a way of getting in the way of taking one's time doing the butchering, etc.  Anybody else relate to that?  In this case, a freezing cold garage, my young daughters need me in the house, I hate butchering anyway (a frank admission; love the hunting, the butchering a necessary evil for me), and a backlog of to-do's on the list, plus our Lambley family's Christmas is tomorrow the 26th and I still had some wrapping, etc. to do.

What I did learn.  The arrow did make it into the chest cavity.  Barely.  A hole in the very forward, deep bottom of the chest cavity/rib cage.  Think a rib may have changed the angle of entry a hair.  Weird, too, in that there was lots of dark, coagulated blood under the hide in several places including a bunch under the offside shoulder where my broadhead never reached (makes no sense to me, unless I cut something that was leaking into the connective tissue and the doe's constant walking distributed that blood elsewhere).

This doe made me wish I had a scale here at home.  And fat?  Geez.  I've got slabs of it pasted all over the trees in the backyard.  As soon as the nuthatches, woodpeckers, flickers, etc. find it, it's going to be a feeding frenzy.

Doug in MN...yes, my 'backup' Pronghorn taking its second deer this year.  Curly Ash model purchased from gentleman from MT thru TradGang!

Another neat thing, besides it being just the second deer taken with this new-to-me bow.  This time of year, I try to take my does with some kind of additional challenge.  This one was from a previously 'virgin' stand.  If I get out again, I may take a different bow, or try a different stand, or something to make it more memorable.

Great.  Wish I could be educated more too.  Good job and congrats though.