Claiming you have wild quail is good for business....keep releasing them and hope for the best. The wild quail is not extinct in the South they're just not in huntable numbers like they used to be.

With a good dog I have several spots that you could find a covey on maybe even two....years ago there was at times 8 or 10 coveys or more on these same 2 to 500 acre farms should a sportsman hunt them into extinction. A lot of farms we hunted we never hunted singles because there were so many coveys....unlike a dove shooter quail men were consevatives.

Like New England pheasants a few released birds will survive a season or maybe even two....but they seldom reproduce into huntable populations. Once the releasing stops the populations dwindle.

Nice to think you hunted something truly wild....fact is a lot of the younger generations in the South will never hunt a wild quail unless they go to Texas or somewhere in the midwest