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Quail Hunting

Do-It-Yourself Bird Dogs For Quail Hunting

There are plenty of opportunities in Georgia for quail hunters to hit the fields with a dog — especially if you want to hunt with someone else’s dog shooting someone else’s birds. It’s another kind of quail hunter that’s getting scarce, the fellow who owns and feeds his bird dogs himself and keeps them in…

Quail Hunting With Kate Blackburn

There is an annual January gathering in Sylvania that warms the heart, even if the temperatures have dropped and the weather has a sting. The quail fly better anyway when the weather has an edge, but no matter the climatic conditions, the hospitality is unsurpassed. Don Sheppard Jr., his brother, Stan, and his father, Don…

John Sale: When A Man Loves His Dogs

John Sale has had a lifelong love affair with hunting dogs. During the height of his career during the ʼ70s and ʼ80s, people used to kid about his amazing ability to train quality bird dogs. People would often say, “Why heʼs so good, he could even train a goat to point a covey of quail!”…

New Quail Tag, BQI Raises Big Money

A new Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI) license tag will be available at tag offices across the state beginning in December, 2003. The new tag depicts a white-tail buck standing in front of a covey of flushing quail. Proceeds from the sale of the tag are used to pay for the BQI program, a WRD effort…

DNR 2003 Proposed Budget Cuts Painful For Sportsmen

DNR Commissioner Lonice Barrett summed up the budget situation on August 19 when he told the DNR Board that meeting the latest ordered budget cuts had been like deciding “which one of your kids do you want to shoot?” With Georgiaʼs state-revenue outlook growing more dismal, Gov. Sonny Perdueʼs office issued orders to agencies in…

QU Celebrity Quail Hunt Includes Sonny Perdue

For the past 17 years Georgia has hosted the Celebrity Quail Hunt, Quail Unlimited’s (QU) signature event. The concept is simple enough; allow a group of hunters to bid on the opportunity to hunt on select quail-hunting properties with celebrities and corporate executives, and provide a series of highly entertaining evening events where they can…

Georgia Quail, BQI And Bob Lane

During the last five years, Georgia hunters and fishermen have enjoyed strong leadership for their interests in the state legislature, and the list of results is impressive. From organized efforts to restore wild quail, to elevating the legal status of hunting from a “privilege” to a “right,” outdoorsmen have witnessed an unusual amount of energy…

Quail Recipes

Wild In The Kitchen: Quail With Tomato Gravy

If you book a quail or deer hunt at Piney Woods Hunting Lodge in Eufaula, expect a breakfast fit for a king. This is the lodge’s signature dish. 3 lbs. quail breast filets 1 quart buttermilk No hindsight ip unit displayed. 4 cups self-rising flour 1 teaspoon garlic salt 2 teaspoons Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning…

Wild In The Kitchen: Bacon Wrapped Quail

I doubt seriously if you will ever be called upon to cook quail for 600 people like my friend Ron Chamblee and I do every February, but let me warn you that if you ever do, don’t even consider frying that much quail. We manage to feed everyone at the Ashville First Baptist Wild Game…

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Wild Game Recipes: Hush Puppy Quail

If you have some quail in the freezer, get out the cooker and try this recipe. This recipe works great with dove, too. What You’ll Need: cleaned and dressed quail pepper jack cheese bacon beaten eggs breadcrumbs oil First, boil quail for three minutes in a pot of water. Debone the birds. Place a small…