Does get base of the skull neck shots and they don't run. If I miss so be it there will be another but that's rare. Bucks I want to save the rack get a just behind the shoulder a little low for the heart shot. If they run at all it's not far. I don't believe in wasting any meat with a shoulder shot.
If this works for you, good. We all have our choices and preferences. I'm gonna guess tho, many folks are not as proficient as you are, especially when it comes to long range shooting. The larger "Boiler room" shot as opposed to the "heart" shot makes for a higher percentage shot. With so many hunters now using an elevated stand to hunt from, the increased angle makes the fist sized heart, even a tougher target.
Back when I used a recurve or longbow, shoulders were a must be, to avoid. Those tools just didn't have the penetration. Not so much anymore. But growing up hunting deer on public land, I learned quickly that 50-100 yards, during the regular gun season, could mean someone else ended up with that deer. Now that so many folks hunt fencelines on their 20-40 acres of private property, the same holds true. High shoulder hits generally are a DRT and generally means the deer is dropping in sight. The rearing back on the hind legs is a good sign that the deer is laying close to where it was shot. The one bag of burger lost means little to me at that point. It's not disrespect to the deer, but respect.
With the onset of CWD in most areas of the country, health officials and state DNRs/F&Gs, advise against intentional shots to any part of the CNS. Having butchered my own deer for over half a century, I have found that the amount of meat on the shoulders of any whitetail deer, does not amount to enough to avoid a primary boiler room shot, especially in the case of a deer, where the "rack" is my primary adjective. Very few, if any of us here in the lower 48, are hunting for subsistence. We are hunting for the sport, even in the case of "meat deer", like does and cull bucks. A "behind the shoulder" shot at most any angle besides pure broadside, may mean a broken shoulder on the other. Behind the shoulder shots when "quartering away" means the shot ends up in the far shoulder anyway. Back when I used primitive archery equipment, this is the shot we waited for or preferred.