Have you shot out at distance to make sure all is bang on or do you practice only at hunting distances? Have you considered making a 10 pin out to 50 if you have a 5 pin? My 20 to point blank all use the same pin and mine go out to 60 not that I shoot that far. But I made sure that all was on.
Could it be a tuning issue?

 

Oh yes. I shoot my bow every day out to 60 yards and have no problem getting a group about the size of my fist at 60. I have OCD so I make sure my equipment is on the money before I leave out every time. The doe I believe ducked my string in all honesty but this coyote I’m just convinced I drilled. He turned back and bit at the 10 ring before he took off. I just have no idea how he made it any further than a step let alone however far he went with zero blood trail. Just super frustrating to have such a string of bad luck or just bad execution whichever it is.

 

Every coyote I’ve ever shot; When recovering them the wound was different than what I pictured on the shot. They move like crazy.

Faster than a Coues deer…or about the same.

I bet its dead within 200y from where you last saw it.

 

What do you use for a broadhead?

 

Swhacker. I’ve had great luck with them through the years but to be honest I’m not sure if it deployed today. The blades were closed when I pulled it out of the ground and were still sharp and clean. The shot was at 12-13 yards almost right under my platform so I’m not sure if it just didn’t have time to deploy and blew right through or what. Definitely has given me my first reason to doubt mechanicals.

 

It's bow hunting. I have not lost a deer in years (maybe should have not jinks myself) but have in the past. It happens to every hunter, just keep practicing and go hunting. I know it makes you feel bad, and you never want it to happen, but it does. Good luck.
Ches.

 

In my experience they can cover a lot of ground after the shot and due to their fur the blood trail is rarely good. I personally don't bother looking for them because i'm not going to do anything if i recover the body. Most of the ones i've shot with a bow go down in sight otherwise any coyote with a hole through the chest or abdomen is gonna die eventually. They are tough but not that tough!

 

Maybe high shoulder hit

 

How’s your form from the stand, is something slightly different causing hits off of aim point?

 

Coyotes can be tricky, I have shot plenty with rifles, hit squarely and zero blood for hundred(s) of yards sometimes, the reason I find them is the snow, I just follow tracks.

 

Tough little buggers, they can make it a long ways. I had a bobcat that I nearly decapitated with a Rage make it almost 50yds.

 

So you stick a yote and it runs off (to die)? Sounds like a win, win to me.

 

Shot one yote with my bow, holy chit is all I can say. Dropped where it was hit. Skewered it to the ground with the broadhead in the dirt and the tail end sticking out the entrance side. It turned it's head to the tail end of the arrow and bit the AXIS shaft clean through with one chomp . Died a few seconds after that. Never seen anything like it and don't care to ever again. But it was with a mech (Rage) and I don't think the broadhead could have been any more effective.

The one I shot in the face with a .300win mag from the ground at 10 feet was even crazier....

 

I smoked one last year and there was barely any blood until I got very close to it. Luckily there was fresh snow so I was able to track that way

 

Hardly ever shot a yote that left much of a blood trail with a gun or bow. That thick hair just soaks up the blood, I guess. That’s just the one’s I look for. If I know I hit it, I don’t even look.

 

I shot a coyote one year while I was deer hunting the high country in Nevada. The yote was weaving through the Aspens hunting and didnt see me. I shot as he stopped to sniff something at 35y and he turned inside out getting out of there. I saw him doing a Lemans course out of there twisting and turning through the trees- no follow a game trail for those yotes.

Its like they are trying to shake something thats following them. I’ve seen them do this a few times and the only other game species I’ve seen that does that regularly is a Coues deer.

Anyway, it took a bit to find him…there was a little blood but since they are moving so fast its not much of a trail. The reason I remember that yote was that the entrance hole was on the opposite side from where I shot. The yote had done a 180 before the arrow got there- crazy.

 

Shot one at 20 yds with a slick trick right behind the shoulder. He ran like a bat outta hell. Got outta tree about two hours later and arrow was covered in blood but no blood trail Went to where he exited the field and there he laid. Between him hauling the mail and his thick hair not a drop of blood was left. Hair soaked up most of it

 

Shot several with a rifle and same thing. No blood trail and they ran a decent distance before expiring. Tough animals and their fur soaks it up.