In the 50s, growing up on a ranch in West Texas, we kids often trapped blue quail. Mother loved to cook quail but didnt like shot in them. Never had a guilty conscience about it. Those were days of inexhaustible plenty and we kids were too young to have qualms.
Like eightbore I too have a Parker hammer 10 gauge with 28 choked barrels on a 2 frame weighing less than eight pounds. I have carried it many times in the field while chasing pheasants. 1 1/4 ounce of #5 with the short shot string hits them like a sledgehammer. Same with spring turkey.
