An old friend's dad was a quail guide in Emannuel County, Georgia (eastern central Georgia) as a young man in the 1930's. His clientele was from the north who rode the train south and stayed at Coleman's Lake, a resort of sorts on an oxbow of the Ogeechee River. He ran a string of dogs and always hunted with a 16. A successful businessman, once he got his M37 Ithaca in 16 gauge, that's all he ever used. Until he got too old to run his dogs, he always had a pair of older dogs, two younger and two pups, with the pups learning from the older pointers.