+1 on the waiting 30 minutes. A well hit deer will rarely go more than 100 yards before stopping if you don't push it. I personally believe, with archery, a dead on broadside double lung hit is the best you can do. The shock from it will put them down very fast. Also it is MUCH better for trailing than a heart hit. Heart hit deer means no pumping of blood so you get much less of a blood trail since you are relying on gravity drips verses lung hit sprays. In the fall of the year when there are a LOT of red leaves on the ground you want as heavy of a trail as you can get.
As far as the Rage not penetrating/passing through, I have several friends that hunt with them exclusively and I can think of only one that didn't get a pass through. That was a shot at 42 yards hitting dead center shoulder bone. Most of them use the 2 blade, but a couple of them use the 3 blade with much success. I am more than happy with my G5's though (with slick trick backups
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As far as the Cut on Impact verses Chisel point, With fast heavy arrows, the chisel points are great for really busting through bone. But a Cut on Impact (a well made one) will do it just as well and with much less energy needed. Dead broadside to quartering away are your best shots. With a quartering away shot, draw a line on the deer to where your arrow will be aimed to exit just behind the opposite shoulder. That gives you the easiest path with maximum damage to the lungs. As jbk stated, tune your broad head setups to eliminate planing. By that he means, align the BH's to your fletchings so that the BH's aren't fighting your fletchings for control. My G5's fly dead on with my field tips and no tuning is needed. Part of why I love them. Same with the slick tricks. Also Rocket Steel heads with the bacon skinner blades perform as well in flight but I didn't see as well in the penetration department from them as I do from the other 2.
As previously said, after contact, sit down, calm down, wait for about 30 minutes then come down from the tree, find your arrow and check the blood on the fletchings. Deep red means arterial/possibly heart, Foamy/bubbly light red/pink means lungs, Dark red almost a brown tint means liver, White or green means you are in for a trailing job gut hit and you may be hitting up a farmer for the use of a good bloodhound to find your deer. Always carry a good supply of tie on trail markers for blood trailing. In some cases even a well hit deer may not bleed a whole lot so tie off a marker at the last spotted blood and start a circle pattern at the last point of blood and expand out. Avoid the old wives tales like "hit deer won't go up hill" believe me a deer will go whatever direction it is pointed in and wherever it's ancestral trails go. If you lose blood and the trail is heading towards water, start at the banks of the nearest water as deer DO head for water when hit marginally (gut). Work your way back from the water to the last blood and you will have a good chance of finding it.
Good luck
Edit note: Don't forget to REMOVE those trail markers after you find your deer. Clean and Green!!
) Body wise, It's according to where in Texas you are. Some Tx deer are pretty decent in body size but trust me, They are no match for your midwestern and upper northern deer as far as body mass. Your AVERAGE Saskatchewan Canada deer is around 250 field dressed. Dragging them jokers out is a job to say the least. Hotter climates generate smaller body size in whitetail deer. You will find that your bigger body deer in Texas are from the Mountain ranges in the cooler climates. A lot of the whoppers down there in south Texas are genetically manipulated with strains of the upper northern deer. They have been doing that for a couple of decades now and it is really starting to show in the general populations of deer taken down there.
