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Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon View Post
You’re right, Stan, and if they can pull off several generations, they will be wild.

I have observed that if there is contiguous cover, and there is good brooding weather, quail will move into good cover. Likewise, they disappear under the reverse conditions…and they can be “shot out.”
I recall in my youth, hunting with beagles in river bottoms, we would hear a volley of shots and someone in our group would say "bird hunters". They would come into a field, three or four of them, with A5s and 1100s and kill no telling how many birds out of a covey with no concern whatsoever about conservation or future hunting. Back then I didn't think much about it, but looking back it is surprising that the quail populations didn't go away sooner than they did.
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