There are a handful, if that many, of SW GA quail plantations that offer wild quail hunting to the paying public. Usually reserved for the owner's family and friends, a few days a year are opened on a limited basis. A friend took his son and another father-son to such a plantation and a day and half hunting was $25,000 for the 4. This included lodging and meals.
I wouldn't no more believe they were wild quail than I believe a horse could fly.
'Tis so. Mostly around the Albany to Thomasville area. It's probably the only place left, east of the Mississippi, that has such a vast area managed for wild quail. As Gil said, that's the "secret". These 1000 acre tracts won't cut it for really allowing wild bird numbers to build back from the few coveys already there. They need tens of thousands of contiguous acres. You can help, on small tracts, but nothing like what's in SW GA.
Chokee Plantation, near Leesburg, is such a place. A couple years ago the going rate was $11,500 per gun.
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