RE: .17 bullet
That's what needle and thread is for! If you want to have one mounted, you need to kill it and recover it! Be prepared to loose as many as you find with the 17 hmr! No blood trails is the result of the tiny 17 bullet and those coyotes can and will run a long ways before they fall over! Use something bigger to shoot them! Wanting to mount one is a poor excuse for using an under powered gun!
Will the 17hmr work? Sure it will, but it will fail you as many times as it will succeed!