Originally Posted By: Goatkiller
Originally Posted By: gobbler
1) Optimally managed habitat 2) intensive predator control 3) year round feeding.


So that's basically a quail farm.

What happened to them? First, nobody really farms in Alabama anymore. You just have pockets here and there. In addition if you do farm and for years your practice was to turn the crop residue under after harvest there is no bean stubble for them to run around in.

Fire ants, hawks, etc.

Result = Fewer quail.

Times have changed. Hope you got a few good hunts, but it will never be like it was.




As said before, habitat is the key, and lots of it. Farming now consists of monster fields with no hedgerows, intensive herbicides and insecticides, and no fallow ground and tree farming with too many trees per acre. Also lack of burning where everyone used to burn.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine