What's so hard to beleive. If you've hunted coyote long enough and seen bunches of them shot, then you'll see broadside shot/lung shot coyotes sometimes run a long ways before they roll up. Many times, they'll do the death spin, then take off running, and that's after being hit by anything from a .223 to a 22-250 to a .243. It's certainly takes no stretch of imagination to beleive a coyote being hit broadside by a .17 hmr running a long ways without leaving much if any blood trail.
