Shooting quail on the ground, before they have flushedis legal, but it certainly isn't fair chase. As a sportsman, I think it is wrong to hunt in that way. Same forbaiting. Hunting is one of the last "pure" sports. It really is and by hunting in ways that taint the purity (feeders, bait, high fences), it takes away from fair chase.

If spotlighting deer and shooting them were legal, would we condone that as hunting? Of course not.