Sorry I shook you up, buzz. There are many others that feel the way I do, but do not say so for fear of being misinterpreted. I could understand your position on wild quail, except that I feel you are over estimating the importance you play, as a predator, in the overall quail population. When you accept the fact that 80+% of all quail and doves will die before next season anyway, killing a few quail out of the population doesn't have much of an impact.
I DO limit myself at times, according to my conscience, to less than a limit. Sometimes WAY less. I certainly do not even approach a limit of wild quail here in Georgia. I do however, hunt them even though there is only a fraction of the birds that were here in the '70s. Heck, I couldn't kill a limit of wild quail here if I hunted from daylight to dark. But, the same coveys that I take a few from each year on my land are there again the next year. The population here is very low, but it is stable, and may have even come back up a little.
buzz, if you couldn't see from what I said in my earlier post that there is more to it for me than just the killing, than I would make a suggestion to you, as well. Go back and try to read it without letting your emotions cloud the print. You don't spend the time scouting and watching birds feed after killing a limit that I do without having a profound respect for the quarry.
If you feel so strongly about this then maybe you should take it up with the game and fish departments, who set the limits.
SRH
