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I personally don't worry about damaged meat, infact other than monolithic bullets you wouldn't catch me eating meat from the wound area of most shoulder shot animals. Sooner lose meat from the front end and have a dead deer.
As others have mentioned above, they may be a little soft for a close up shoulder bone shot. I use a .223 a lot so it is just second nature to slip the bullet just behind the shoulder, or head/neck.
Other option is to load some with a min load of 2208 so they are going a couple of hundred fps slower. Doesn't matter if they don't group fantastic as it is just a close range load. I do it with 110gr bullets and just color some of it in with vivid so I can tell which is which and have that as my first round.
At the end of the day they are what you have and they do work well so use them.