Nice, I have only read about mt. quail in some of Ted Truebloods work. Beautiful birds. Are the common in your area? Ted quit shooting them in Idaho because they were becoming quite scarce.....
WCH, yes there very common in my area, just loads of them. Can see up to 8 to 10 coveys in a day with 12 to 30 in a covey.
So, not scarce here, heavly populated....there very fast...hard to hunt....steep canyons...thick forest.
You start to see mountain quail at the 3000ft. level to about 8000ft. ish
Yes, I agree, very beautiful birds....sometimes its hard to shoot them, but they taste so good!!!
In this pic I used my browning 28ga. 1oz of #6 shot, Imp cyl. bottom/ mod. on top