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To elaborate on Andy and Cooper's posts, you need to put yourself in the animal's position. If you knew you were going to die, would you want a clean death or a wound that would take hours and hours and severe pain and suffering before you died?
Sometimes, mistakes do happen and animals get wounded. We all make mistakes, and I can admit to a good amount (e.g., stopping my gun swing on birds, judging the wind wrong), but I try to limit them and I practice a lot, especially with the shotgun.
We all make mistakes, and even though this story turned out well with a stone dead coyote, the mistake on this one was pulling the trigger. You got everything else right, and now you know where that gun shoots at 400 yards, so the next one might not be a mistake to pull the trigger, but maybe it is a mistake to use that cartridge at that range.
Was there any way to get to within 300 yards, so that you would be taking a shot you were comfortable with?
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