Ya it was shot with a rifle. We were out showing my uncle some new country for his rifle deer hunt in October. We stopped at a clearing to point out a few landmarks, they took off and I spotted something. Looked, and it was just a bush. As I turned my head, I caught something else out the corner of my eye, looked again and I could see a coyote sitting in the brush looking in the direction of where my dad and uncle were driving off. I baled off and grabbed my rifle. He had run about 25 yards from the first time I saw him, but still was looking in the opposite direction. All I could see was his head, so I lined up the cross hairs and drilled him. I watched him flop in the scope and then called my dad on the radio. The rest is history.