Thanks for the advice, like I said my buddy flinches alot and we should have both fired at the same time as he was scratching his ear in the middle of the field in broad daylight. He should have never missed it in the first place, but this was the first time ever coyote hunting and the first coyote I had ever seen in the wild while being outdoors. I am an avid hunter and I hunt quite a bit and I have never seen a coyote out in the field while hunting. It was such a great experience in seeing this animal in the wild. We will take this as a learning experience. We were sitting among a dead fallen tree, so each of us had a solid rest, my shot was taken off hand while kneeling as the coyote ran off after he took his shot at it. But still there is no excuse, lol.