In my experience "shoulder" shots can yield surprising results. I agree that a SST is statistically unlikely to blow up and leave only a surface crater on the shoulder a deer. But hit just perfectly in the juncture of the Humerus/Scapula joint, and bullet failure and lack of penetration is a real possibility. I've seen that joint stop a few bullets after only 2" of travel with no more penetration and a couple other times thats that bullets showed extreme deflection. It takes a very tough bullet to hit the ball of the humerus and continue through the cup of the scapula joint and keep penetrating in a straight line. I don't personally like how the SST fragments and ruins good meat, but I think they will reliably smash a deers' scapula and continue on to destroy lungs or spine from broadside. I'm not sure I would blame the bullet for "blowing up" on a quartering towards shot that perfectly centred the scapula / humerus joint.
