SoCal. And if I'm being honest, I love whatever bird is on my plate and in my mouth! HaHA!
I really like the taste of Quail, then Duck, Dove is "alright" but ya kinda need to know what you're doing and the various recipes. I do like those Dove Popper though.
I don't like cleaning the Doves though. Must be allergic to their down or something... they make me itch make my skin crawl something fierce and make my sinuses go nuts!
I'm slowly getting the hang of Doves thru decoying them onto tree branches rather than relying upon on-the-wing shots only. I do both, but the on-the-wing fly-overs are very exasperating yet... At least until I get better with a shotgun. I'm much newer with shotgun, much more of a rifleman.
Quail I'm finding a bit tricky, but it's also because of the terrain at the location involved to, quite a bit of a slope to this certain location we were at. And damn they take off like rockets when they flush! Don't stay in the air long at all either! Fly just enough above the thick bushes to get to point B pronto. I really wish they'd let me take quail with like a .17 HMR though... I could totally get my limit no problemo doing it with rifle instead and just sniping them while they're working their way along the ground.
Unfortunately somebody invited me to go out with them to Wister too for Ducks... so now I'm committed to conquering that too and getting better at that as well.
I feel thankful for the bird opportunities to at least help satiate that need for taking game until you can finally get back around to deer/bear season again. Really enjoy this opener cause finally had my boy with me now. Had to wait for his maturity level and patience levels to be more tolerable for me to deal with, patience wise on my part. He was a bit of a whiner when he was little younger, so I knew I wouldn't have the patience to deal with it out there. This last time out was real fun and pleasant though.
