A worthwhile experiment and yet another instance of this site and its members providing education to the rest of us.

As to whether you have a quail gun, I suppose that having proven you have a clay pigeon gun the next step would be to try it on quail. If it works for you as well on quail as it did on clay pigeons then I suppose you do, in fact, have a quail gun.

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