Restocking quail is not worth the effort. You will be fighting predators (hawks, owls, cats, coyotes, neighbors dogs), lack of habitat, insect spray, weed spray, fertilizer. I have done field trialing for years and the best way to have quail around is to either buy them or raise them yourself and release them the day you hunt them. If you release them a few days before you hunt them, you will not find them. They will be gone.

This is the very reason I am now an elk hunter. I have farms in Kansas and there is very little quail hunting in Kansas. Some places you will have good hatches and good habitat and the huntingmay begood during some seasons. When I go out now and hunt quail I will only see a few and maybe shoot only one or two. This is where I used to shot 16 per day.

I also belong to a quail unlimited club here in Arkansas and we have tried to plant quail. But they will not last more than a few days. You have to put them down within an hour before you hunt or they will be gone.