I agree with the above except on one point.
Why do people think we "owe" anything to an animal? The goal of hunting is to kill an animal. I don't owe it anything. If anything, I'll thank God for putting it there, but the pig or deer or whatever gets nothing but a bullet from me.
I'm just saying that as long as we are killing animals, the least we can do is try to make it as quick and painless as possible. There's no reason, IMHO, to take chances and make risky shots that may wound a deer without putting them down for the count.
I guess it boils down to empathy. If I werewalking through the woods, I wouldn't want someone to shoot me in the @$$ or the gutsso I lay there slowly bleedingto death in the cold. I hunt to getmeat, not make animals suffer any more than necessary to get that meat.