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Ranger B:
Today I got on the stand at 5:30 a.m. and right after daylight I heard the turkeys coming off the roost and almost immediately they began cackling.  I saw them running and then saw a coyote chasing them.  I saw no deer!  After about an hour he got too close to my stand and I drilled him right behind the shoulder.  He took off and in about another hour a little 6 pointer came in.  He walked around for a while and when he started to leave I gave him a couple of gently grunts and he circled back for another look then eased out.   When I got off the stand I followed where the coyote had run.  I knew he couldn't be far.  About 50 yards from my stand I saw the only blood and then at about 60 yards I saw my arrow, broken in two and bloody from feathers to the end, but no coyote.  I searched for that coyote for over an hour and nothing.  Is this typical?  Are they hard to track and can they run longer than a deer?

Ryano:
I shot one once a couple years ago with my bow. But it was almost a straight down shot from my tree stand and the arrow passed threw it right between the shoulder blades. It ran around 75 to a hundred yards before it crawled in a hole under a  blow down tree where the roots had pulled up out of the ground. Mine bled like crazy the whole way, wasnt that hard to track. They are definetley tough critters though.  8)

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Sparrow:
They are really good at hiding when wounded.They usually won't just lay down in the open.  Frank

Keenan:
 Man your on a role Ranger.  Sorry you didn't find him.  yotes are tuff critters and after all that fur is off they are fairly small bodies.  I've shot two with bow and several with rifles and they can be brutal tuff. One time I hit one with a .223 AR , quarted away and from behind the shoulder, blew out his chest and he was still alive chewing on his own leg. Kind of errie to see that.

Justin Snyder:
I have shot coyotes through the chest with .223 and 22-250 and had them run 200 yards before they dropped.  They can be real tough to kill and even harder to find.  Justin

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