Dad didn’t teach him well enough. My 11 year old boys hit what they aim at. Luckily for me, they are not screwed up mentally.
I will agree with that.
In either hunting or self-defense, you never shoot to wound. Although a shot in the ass can kill if you hit a femoral artery. Dad was lucky.
In this case I would say the boy was hunting so he should never have taken the shot until he had a sure kill shot on his target.