"So all the bleeding is internal, even with a heart shot?....CC"

Essentially, this is true.

If you are lucky enough to hit the heart - I liken it to bowhunting - trying to hit the lung area to collapse the lungs for a quick humane death. A low lung shot would probably result in more blood where the higher the hole the less blood. Now on a frontal shot straight in -think about when you hang the animal upside down with the chest being down it's going to probably be more like a head shot the blood draining out the bullet hole. Where as you have a side shot lungs kind of high and back a little when you hang the coyote up to skin the blood will stay in the chest cavity. Just my thoughts on it.

This topic has run its course. I'm closing it to be sent to the archives later.

-- Hal

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