coyote

[woodsman1031]

This evening I was in a tree stand deer hunting and I saw a very dark looked almost black coyote. This coyote was running at a fairly good clip but I whistled and he stopped. I shot him behind the shoulder with a .243 with a 100 grain remington core lokt bullet. The shot was about 60 yards. I shot him in a pipeline before he reached the trees. I went to get him and I found blood and what looked like lung tissue near where I shot him and I followed a blood trail for around 15 feet. The blood trail disappeared and I never found it again nor the coyote. I started a circle search and there is also no undergrowth so I could see quite a way in any direction.I have never shot one before and I am wondering if they usually behave like this. I know I got a solid hit, do yall think he may have hidden himself before he died? He was the darkest coyote I have ever seen and I planned on keeping the fur.

[Penny_Plinker]

Wow, that's great, i'd just love to get a shot at a coyote like that. It could have went over 100 yards with a lung shot, but lung shots make them bleed heavily. At least that's how it works on deer. Still you found what looked like what lung tissue so it maybe the shot went through the very top of the lung and so the blood pooled inside. It might have got far enough to crawl in a hole. I'm sure you looked real good, because you wanted that fur, so you did your best. Good shooting, anyway, it sounds like an exciting hunt. Maybe if it doesn't die, you'll get another shot at it. Hope so, coyotes are bad news.

Penny

[Uncle_Alvah]

I gotta believe he's there, maybe down in a little depression or something, hard to say without know what the land is like exactly.
However, a decent hit with a .243 is pretty much curtains, get a friend or two to help search, more eyes/more gooder.......

[Old_Dog]

A good case for having a dog to help with the tracking. If he was hard hit with a .243, he's stone cold dead. He's there somewhere.