Sentence:  For the first group, hunting is the <WSD>gutshot</WSD> deer gasping to death while its killer has given up pursuit, the woman in Maine shot in her own backyard by a hunter who thought her brown coat and white mittens meant a deer, and hoarse, bloodthirsty varmint hunters "blazing" away 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  shot in the gut.