I actually stayed on here in Louisiana more for the quail and woodc*ock hunting than the waterfowling. Killed 103 quail (and gosh knows how many, then 5 bird, woodc*ock limits) in my nearly 16yr-old Brittany, Kie's, first full season without pruning any coveys too close, but bigger plows and more cows have all but wiped out the quail and radically reduced woodc*ock covers in my area over the past decade or so.
Been some years since I've had the heart to shoot a quail, but we still get the old boy out for woodc*ock when north winds bring them our way:
And the coyote gets just enough of a taste of upland gunning to be ready to step up when Kie's time passes:
Olly, it's a heck of a note when woodc*ock gets bleeped on a hunting board. Shudder to think of how these guys must have abused it.