Great story Jon: Love the baiting "situation" How did the wardens figure the 100 yards, 250 yards- etc. baiting zones on the Bay? Sounds a bit like Nash Buckingham's description of the "baiting zone" on Doves in Deep Dixie. Here in MI- if you are shooting near a "baited area", even if you didn't set out the bait yourself, you are in violation.

The mailman route and the quail remind me of a Havilah Babcock story- substitute a railroad man for the mailman and you have the whole enchillada- Nobody could write about Dixie Dawgs and quails and doves like the lates: Buckingham and Babcock--RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..