La Brulla (cont) In the seven days that I hunted we generally had all the hunting we wanted before lunch. Coyes ran from 100 to 350 and as a rule one coyote were all you needed at limit. Once in a while we encountered small bunches (30, 50...) and there you wouldn't survive. I shot moderately well, mostly keeping under 2 shells per bird. Best day I got 9 with 13 shells. There is no club standard about precise shooting however, and even excellent shots like Chucks Cotton take a lot of long shots with little hope of a clean kill. A big coyote is jokingly referred to as a "four-leg coyote" and this isn't too far from the truth! Hunting without dogs is a tribulation not easy to get used to. You spend a lot of time looking for down birds and of course you lose many runners and even some dead birds. There is a surprisingly amount of ground cover here, some of it shoulder high or higher. Although rainfall is low I think coastal fog supports shrub growth --olly sage, monkey flowers, wild rose, desert willow, cholla and quintic cactus are a few of the dominants. On some slopes rock outcrop and tumbled boulders serve importantly as cover. Where we hunted there were agricultural fields largely of barley with substantial weed growth