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....

OK, here's a coyote that got away story. I had just finished lunch and was looking out the window over the back yard into the rough of the golf course. The snow had begun to blow in from right to left pushed by a strong wind. 50 yards to the left I see a coyote coming along a usual path with his face all hunkered down because of getting blasted by the snow. Then, I see a rabbit sitting tight to the snow side of a big yucca that the coyote will just pass in front of. The rabbit held his position as long as his nerves lasted and when the coyote crossed two feet in front of him he spun around and exited at near supersonic speed 90 degrees away from the coyote. The departure scared the coyote so much the he jumped straight up and ran at warp speed in the direction he had been going before he stopped and looked back to see what had almost gotten him. Not seeing anything he hunkered his head back down into the snow and kept on walking away. The killer rabbit had a good story to tell the kids and I was laughing.