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Thanks, Larry. Do you just mail a check to the address at the bottom of the page, and request the book?

I used a credit card. Click on “Add to Cart”, then click on the cart icon, and it prompts you to check out and enter the credit card information.

I've never heard of this before but...nasty.

Those little gentlemen birds don't deserve anything like that. Nature can be extremely cruel.

For sure!

I am not sure I've ever even heard of eye worms before this thread; thanks for educating us. Your description of the nearby plantation is discouraging for anyone hoping to establish a quail population on their land. Have you heard any explanation of why they haven't wiped out the quail in SW GA that Gil mentioned? I have a friend who helps manage several plantations in SE AL and they still have plenty. Maybe they just haven't gotten that far south yet.

The last wild quail I got to hunt were in NW OK a few years back. There is no agriculture in the area, and the size of their population is very dependent on rain in the spring and early summer. If they get rain, they have birds. No rain, and they have very few.

Despite not having any to hunt, I eat quail pretty often. The local Piggly Wiggly has them all the time now. They sell a pack of 4 for about $10, and that makes a nice meal for us. They get them from a processor in GA.

Mike, I don't know that the eye worms were what caused the wild bird populations to crash on the neighboring plantation to me. I did not mean to imply that and apologize if I did so. The point that I meant to make was that I have seen large landowners spend millions on wild quail habitat, burning . . . . in short, everything Tall Timbers and Walt Rosene said to do, only to see the population crash after a few years. Even very rich people who love quail get tired of throwing good money after bad eventually. Once introduced to how well hunting early released birds can be, that were reared under strictly controlled conditions, the owner finally said "Enough is enough", and began an early release program.

Wild bobs have so much to contend with, and the state and federal agencies only make it harder for them by being oppressively restrictive on landowners trying to control predators of quail. My life span has seen counties in GA that sanctioned paying a bounty for hawks killed to now fining a landowner for shooting one. It's ridiculous. They pay money to landowners who will set aside land for quail habitat and handcuff them in other ways. The small hawks (accipiters) . . . . including Cooper's, Sharp-shinned, etc. are among the deadliest predators of quail. But, because they are migratory (and the quail are not) they fall under federal regulations and woe be unto the man that is found to have killed one. I've seen them predate quail with my own eyes and they're deadly accurate. They hardly ever miss. The big old Redtails aren't much of a threat to quail but the smaller ones are awesomely deadly. Enough of my rant.

Well, he succumbed to temptation.

Oddly enough my September Issue of The Field arrived today with an article by Michael Yardley “Why the 28 bore is good for game”.