You make a good point quick for some readers,

Here is probably the worst part of the article:

"Which made it all the more traumatic to discover a shot-to-pieces doe dying in their gazebo one winter, to see a deer who'd lost an antler trying to dislodge the arrow in his side, to watch Stumpy, who still staggers gamely to the corn feeder out back even though part of his hind leg was shot off three years ago.

And Smiling Buck. After he was struck with an arrow in the side of the head, he took the better part of a year to die. The medicated apples helped for a while, but the infection kept flaring up. It was awful to see him standing there with a rivulet of pus flowing down his neck and that soft smile."

But, I don't think everyone will see it like you do and I'm not sure if the author meant it to be tongue in
cheek (especially if they don't know anything about hunting). Non-hunters could easily get some
horrible mental pictures out of this story and not realize it is over the top, and they could easily side
with the crazy lesbians who are defending these poor creatures against the brutal hunters.