I should have known better

[scalerman]

I shot a coyote with my 270 at about 75 yards. He dropped like a sack of hammers. I went and put the gun back in my truck. When I got back to where the coyote was there was a huge puddle of blood but no coyote. Is the 270 too light for coyotes? Coyotes are obvoiusly tough. I did follow up- he had gone about 100 yards and was dead as a wedge. The point is that while we do like stuff to die where we drop it it doesn't always happen.