We were all a little rusty, but it was a beautiful fall day for friends, dogs, bbq, and birds.
Kat, Fannie (GSPs) and Josey (Pointer) did much better at pointing than we did at shooting, lol. My 1st time with CZ 28ga, I LIKE it!

Full disclosure, lol. We have a few wild coveys but it's rare to run across them. Our little hunts consist of putting out 20-25 birds in the morning, eating bbq for lunch, then hunting that afternoon. Two shooters at a point, so we take turns. We brought back 14 of the 22 at this hunt. A friend raises them from chicks and then keeps them in an old chicken house as a flight pen so they fly well. I accuse him of having trained the ones we miss to fly back to his pens so he can sell them again- Homing Quail, lol.
Those upland birds are mighty tasty in a pot but I have to admit that of all
the game that my brother and I had to clean after the hunt was a day old frog
or a quail that was carried in a game bag for four hours, in the Calif heat.
The smell of their intestines, was enough to gag a maggot, at least, to me.