Not sure if it is right or wrong but that's how I do it. Quail are a lot sturdier than a dove and it takes a little more muscle to breast them out but it can be done with your bare hands just like a dove. You lose the leg meat that way, but I like the breast meat best anyway myself. I also bone the breast out like I do with dove as well and they end up on a kabob stuffed with jalepenos and wrapped in baconlike a dove as well. They taste good too!