Originally Posted by jaguartx
Well, in West Texas you will lose 20-40% of blue quail you down with 71/2 because by the time you get to where the broke wing birds fell they will be 75 yards away uphill or in desert sand you cant run in or 2-3 feet down a badger hole or burrowing owl hole or under several hundred pounds of pack rat nests 2 feet high and 6 ft across built up through 12 branches of a spreading mesquite.

With low base 20 ga 6's i will beat any gunner with a 12 and high brass 71/2's re birds in the bag at days end.
Wish I had learned to shoot with a sxs.

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I agree 100%. Bigger shot nails them better. When I rolled my own shotgun ammo I would load some 1 1/8 ounce 5 shot ammo just for quail, and some 1 1/4 ounce loads for the left barrel. 6s did a good job and had a denser pattern. Quail vanish into badger holes and into lava boulder piles and slides out here even when they're dead, I'd swear.

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