A TRUE sportsman would make sure the shot was an instant kill, without causing undue suffering.
I know how wolves and coyotes kill their prey. It doesn’t mean we have to be vindictive and be joyful by causing undue pain and suffering.
Having hunted many years, I get upset with myself if I don’t make a clean shot. Fortunately, there have been very few.
There is a reason why people gut-shoot them.
It is illegal to shoot them, so you don’t want them dying in the back 40 where someone will find them.
It’s safer to gut-shoot them with a FMJ bullet that leaves no trace and causes them to run off and die miles away.
That is how its done in MI’s UP.