I belong to sportsman's club and we have a regulated hunting ground permit. There is a small group of us that have bird dogs, we pay for the permit and run it . It is pretty informal, the bird dog club reserves dates to hunt and on other days any club member is allowed to plant their own birds and hunt during the regulated hunting ground season. Our club is also enrolled in the CREP program so we have stellar habitat for the birds. We do not raise birds, we purchase them for each hunt. This past Saturday we had 17 kids for a youth pheasant hunt using the bird dog club members dogs to hunt for the kids. It is one of the things I most enjoy. WE do have a holding pen to hold birds we purchase for a day or two. We buy good quality birds from reputable breeders who have large flight and hardening pens.. We hunt quail, Chuckers and pheasants. I know for an absolute fact not one member of our club would tolerate luring human acclimated birds to the gun by rattling corn in a can. I suspect that would be what they do at feeding time to bring the birds to the feeding troughs. I am sorry if I ruffled any feathers but a man and a hunter/sportsman has to have standards and lines that they will not cross in my opinion.