Coyote with an arrow in its neck...Question for those arrow shooters...

I wonder what dumbpoop shot the coyote in the neck?

Arrows don't kill with FPE, they kill by creating a wound channel that hemorrhages. The best location to shoot any animal with an arrow tipped with a broadhead is the heart-lung area. Actually, shooting an animal anywhere besides the heart/lung area is never recommended and is just plain lazy, inhumane, stupid..add an unending list of derogatory adjectives.

I tried to see if there was a broadhead on the arrow, but couldn't tell. Field points will only wound...unless of course you get lucky and hit the brain or spine...which you shouldn't be aiming for anyway.

There was no point at all in the arrow that I could see. Why doesn't someone just shoot it and put it down for good?? Only good coyote is a dead one!!

They are a tough animal for sure but, who ever shot that arrow should have to eat it. Clearly , it couldn't have been sharp. A broadhead kills by hemorage , and that only takes places from a properly sharppened head. Maybe the arrow in this case was a target point. It clearly didn't create hemorage. Lots of ill-educated walking around now days. Only the lord would know for sure what took place. Also, there couldn't have been any kind of power used , it would have gone clean through. If it hit the spine to stop it, the animal would be down for the count. It 's a total shame something like this is on fim. It sure can't help our emage.

The point, whatever it was, appears to be missing. It could have vibrated loose (screwed on). Strange angle but coyote was probably alert with head upright when the shot was taken or when it heard the shot. Could have even moved enough to affect point of impact. 

I’ve known for the 51 years I’ve bowhunted, that the neck is a very poor choice for arrow placement. At least 75% of the neck is no lethal area. 

When I first started hunting I told my grandpa if I got a chance at a buck I was going to shoot him in the neck. He quickly told me you never aim for the neck and since he was my mentor I followed that advise. Many years later while hunting with a friend he shot a buck from a tree stand. He said that before he shot he could see the deer breathing from his neck. The deer had been shot through the windpipe by a hunter 6 hours earlier as we learned when the other group of hunters trailed the deer in the snow to where we were. The hunter asked to examine the deer to see where he had shot it and could not believe the deer did not drop in his tracks. He was using a 30.06. So now that should answer the question of whether a 100 fpe air rifle would have gotten the job done. I have seen pictures of deer with arrows through their heads and still moving about. There are three places to aim for on a deer. They are the boiler house, the boiler house and the boiler house.

Looking at the angle of the arrow, it seems to have penetrated from lower left side of the neck to slightly higher on the right side. Odd angle to shoot a coyote, unless you consider the possibility that it was a ricochet after hitting the ground. That scenario would explain the angle, the lack of a broadhead or point, and the lack of a clean pass-through. For all we know, the person that let that arrow fly may have put it precisely through the boiler plate of another coyote, resulting in a clean kill, and never realized the arrow hit the ground after passing through, broke off the tip, then flew up into another coyote. Maybe we don't realize it, but sometimes we are so quick to assume the worst about another hunter. It could well be the work of an idiot, but unless more information becomes available, I'm going to do what I'd like others to do for me, and give him/her the benefit of the doubt. 

James

Lots of ill-educated walking around now days...

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The only group that outnumbers them is the group that feels the need to judge others based on very limited to no real information, and they do far more damage... I will never understand it...

To answer the only question that was asked, there are too many variables to tell for sure, but chances are a 100 FPE pellet in the same spot would likely still not be lethal... Just my .02 cents

If the arrow passed through it probably wouldve done more damage but to the many of the comments above - what make's you think he was aiming at the neck, he most likely just pulled the shot or the dog moved at the last second, no one intentionally shoots for the neck...

If it was a broadhead it would have died. I still agree heart lung is the only shot one should take. Only xxxxxxx shoot game with field tips. That's really sad. 

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That’s really sad, someone should put the poor thing down. 

Looking at the angle of the arrow, it seems to have penetrated from lower left side of the neck to slightly higher on the right side. Odd angle to shoot a coyote, unless you consider the possibility that it was a ricochet after hitting the ground. That scenario would explain the angle, the lack of a broadhead or point, and the lack of a clean pass-through. For all we know, the person that let that arrow fly may have put it precisely through the boiler plate of another coyote, resulting in a clean kill, and never realized the arrow hit the ground after passing through, broke off the tip, then flew up into another coyote. Maybe we don't realize it, but sometimes we are so quick to assume the worst about another hunter. It could well be the work of an idiot, but unless more information becomes available, I'm going to do what I'd like others to do for me, and give him/her the benefit of the doubt. 

James

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Really good points and very NCIS analysis. I'm with you, let's go glass half full this one, and with the limited info not assume ill intent. It could have been a ricochet and/or the animal moved right as he/she took the shot. I would think with a 100 fpe air rifle, that would have been a pass through and likely not been lethal. 

My old boss once said "To Assume makes an Ass out of u and me"