I don't think they treated the elk with "disdain," but it sure seemed like the shot was taken without regard whether the elk might be wounded by the first shot.
And while that sort of observation is often "countered" with the all-too-true argument that "short-range" hunters often wound game, that's as irrelevant as a teenager's excuse that "all the other kids do it." Wounded is wounded, whether it happens at 13 yards or 1376.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
