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Jerry, I think that because wild chukars have a fairly limited range, and because they're such popular preserve birds, there are almost certainly more pen-raised shot than wild. Quail . . . no question, given the decline of wild bobwhites. Pheasants . . . if you'd asked your question not that many years back, when both SD and IA were regularly recording million + harvests, and states like ND and KS weren't all that far behind (and MN and NE were around the half million mark), my initial response would have been more wild pheasants. However, if you stop to think of all the states that either don't have any wild pheasants, or else relatively few, and then think of all the birds shot on preserves, the wild ones might not have had that much of an edge--if any. Today, I'm pretty sure more released ones than wild are killed. Sad.