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shot at 300 yards chases his tail about 6 times and hits afterburner and he is over the hill. i didnt see any blood and trailed about 1/2 mile. i thought most of the time if they went into the death spin they were hit good. (my first post!!!)
 
Nope! A coyote on spin cycle doesn't always mean a lethal hit. He'll do the same dance if hit too low or too far back. It's possible the shot will eventually kill him, but they are tough animals. Just hitting them is no guarantee you will kill them. No matter WHAT caliber you use. Shot placement is everything.
 
Tail chasing is one thing, but a tail spin is another. I don't know how many times I've shot a coyote at close range with the old 12 gage #4 buck and watched there tail spin. No they ain't going nowhere when that happens lol.
 
OK Danny, now you gonna' let them wonder, or are you gonna' tell them what tail spin is? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
The coyotes I shoot just run out of gas and tip over, dont recall to much spinnin of any kind unless I make a leg hit, and they recover pretty fast and get under way. Dont call much just shoot em when I see em, that might be why .There usually runnin and they wobble a little and fall over.
 
Well see i dont kno about all this... because my neighbor's golden retrieve was chased home the other night by 5 coyotes(about 200 yards from the house) and he got the gun and they were running and he didnt lead one enough and he thinks he hit it in the a$$ and he said it started to chase it's tail or what ever the hell u wanna call it and then it just took off... hmmm /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

PPH
 
I had a positive hit on one on the hip. Slowed him down some but he was still plenty fast to take off. After I saw the hit for about a fraction of a second I thought he was going to hit the dirt but he took off "for home and mother."

Didn't have a blood trail or tracks to follow either.
 
Im just talkin from my experience,Not callin anybody a liar A couple of us shot over a hundred this winter and The only spinnin I seen was mostly low hits,hind legs mostly and they get up and go in short order. One thing I do notice about a coyote when he is coming over a hill to the road he will either bounce on his front feet or jump in the air to see if its clear to go. Also seen em stand on there back legs to look over the top. Any body else notice that?
 
Willy L--I have seen coyotes stand on their hind legs to enable them to look over snow drifts and little hills. They use every resource they have to survive, and believe me, they have plenty of resources!!!

As far as the spinning motion after a coyote is shot, I have seen it many times. Most of the time it is a "death spin" and they collapse and expire. On Februay 2, 2004, the coyote I shot when it was -24º, had the bullet enter right between her two front shoulders (actually closer to her left shoulder than the right) and the only visible blood was a little bit in her mouth. She did hump up and begin to turn her head around slightly when the bullet struck, but didn't do a spin. When I got up to her (a walk of about 160 yards), she had her left front ankle squeezed tightly in her mouth. I think they bite at the area they feel the pain in. All that adrenalin they have pumping keeps them physically going even whey they are dead on their feet.

One thing I have noticed that when a coyote does the death spin and if they are yelping at the same time, their mate/s will sometimes come right on in to give you a closer shot at them just from the yelping their mate is doing. I have definitely incorporated the wounded coyote sounds into my bag of calls for bringing other coyotes in after I have shot one or two. Even if it doesn't bring them back in, it is usually a sound that will make them slow down or even stop so you can get a good shot at them. If I am thinking quick enough and have the FoxPro with me, I'll start the Coyote Pup in Distress sound at pretty high volume and that works to get me another shot (usually).
 
Guess Ive seen em biten at the bullet hole alot If thats a spin then I seen em spin to.Good to know somebody else wathes them coyotes besides me. Good Luck To Ya
 
OK I have seen both spins. Most all of my coyotes have been called in and shot while standing. Most have been double lung broadside and quartering. Few have been bang flops and most will spin biting the side they have been shot on. I have had them complete as high as 9 or 10 circles. I have had a couple spin a couple of times run a few feet spin or try to spin then drop. I have seen the tail spinning also. Looks weird when the tails spin in complete circles and both have been lethal for me. I guess after the shot I watch for that reaction also to help determine the kind of hit. I don't shoot anyway near the distance Willey does as all of mine have been 200 or less yards. This may make a difference.The animal that really has tail spins are raccoons.

My 2 cents

Skinner 2
 
Skinner dont get me wrong about the long shots thats what we get so you know you make do and well hell it works here.Some days here alls you see is white with a black bug crawlin across it,So you drive around the other side and see if thats closer,Some put on the white camo and try to sneek I just shoot.
 
I have only seen the spin a few times. A couple years ago I shot one with a 30.06 hollow point. He was a big male, did the spin thing and ran off. I had shot him behind the shoulder quartering away. When I walked down to the kill site, I found his right leg. Picked it up and told myself this should be a short tracking job. I was wrong. 200 yards later I found him up in the top of a small cedar about 4 ft. tall. He had to have been dead on his feet, and how he even ran at all was beyond me, his whole chest cavity was jello. They are very tough critters and can cover a lot of ground in a hurry, dead or not.
 
Men, I've learned one thing for sure in fifty five years of yote hunting, If you think they will not do a certian thing,,They will and if you think they will do a certian,, they will not.When it comes to figgering out what a yote might do i start gussing and just see how close i come. My conclusion IS you are all right at some time.
Good Luck to All, Joe
 
There are lots of different spins a coyote can take but to me the tail spin is when a coyote goes from very alive to stone cold dead almost instantly. When this happens quite often the tail will do a "death" spin for a few seconds. If a coyote is doing any other type of spin aim for the center of mass and shoot him again to lock him in place, if you don't he will spin a few times, raise his head, gather his sences and SPILT as fast as is coyotely possible.
 
Michael,Here they can get up and run and they just get it again,If we got snow.But a shot even a little bit coyote will use every evasive trick he can think of and Ive seen some that really make me admire them.A favorite of some is to find brush and use other tracs to walk in and the slip of the track when not noticable to throw you off.Or go to the middle of nowere and dig dow in the snow and hope you dont walk them up. If you do Ive seen em jump at
 
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