4 hours ago, drpaladin said:

Quail, the game bird, is quite tasty, provided you don't get any shotgun pellets in your mouth while eating one.

My uncle discovered that plate glass windows work wonders in getting the bird without the pellets.  But the glass in the dining room and delivery of the uncooked, unprocessed quail directly to the table is a bit much...

3 minutes ago, CarlHoliday said:

A friend of my dad was a hunter of game birds and had a Weimaraner bird dog. She was a good at flushing pheasants and quail and retrieving ducks and geese. Unfortunately, as sometime occurs during a hunt, the intended victim of a shot isn't a bird. He was out early one day in Eastern Washington hunting pheasants when he unfortunately shot his dog. He never replaced the dog. In fact, he never hunted birds or talked about hunting birds again.

I can understand why. It was a tough lesson in never pointing a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot and to always be absolutely certain of your target and what may be behind or beyond it.