I've been a member of a couple different hunt clubs over the past few years. One was in Surry County, the other was just west of Emporia. Both had quail on their properties (but no pheasant). The key here is that they were both leased lands from timber companies. The quail seem to like the habitat created when they timber chunks of the property and the grasses and bushes start growing back in. I'm now hunting public land (Chickahominy WMA) and haven't seen or heard a single one.