Back in 1961 my Uncle ran a pretty large cattle ranch up in Paradise Valley about 60-70 miles North of Winnemuca in Humboldt County. My Cousin along with four other cowhands supplemented their liquor money shooting coyotes for a $5.00 BLM bounty. He took three one afternoon one with a neck shot from his Win Hornet. They were thrown in the bed of his truck and on the way to Winnemuca found the neck shot dog came to and jumped out of the truck without its tail. Tails were turned in for payment. He swore it was dead but apparently it didn't agree.

Rick

I never found out if my Cousin got paid for that tail

What I want to hear is the story about the guy who shot the tailless coyote and missed out on the bounty.

What I want to hear is the story about the guy who thought he had killed the coyote but it came back to life while he was cutting the tail off;-)

Me and my wife were hunting coyotes from our 1964 Olds Jetstar 88 one day when we spied one way gone out there. I had a new Remington .22 with a scope mounted on it. So I said watch this honey and I popped a shot off while holding about 10 feet over the coyote. We waited and all the sudden that coyote jumped straight in the air and looked like it did a complete spin and somersault inside it's own skin and took off for home like a rocket, and that's when we realized it was really an Irish Setter not a coyote. 
Couple days later my neighbor asked me if I heard about bills dog getting shot.    No kidding I said.... Imagine that....