I've told this before on here. One of the greatest misses for me that I remember like it happened yesterday. This was in the late sixties, a friend and I were hunting in southern New Jersey on a large piece of unplanted property, where there were pheasants and quail. The dogs went on point in a field, I was shooting a .410 Remington 11-48 with 25" improved cylinder barrel that I had bought in Germany a few years earlier and sent it home. We walked in and the covey rose near me and I got two then a late riser, a cock quail to the left took off and came left to right, a very easy shot which I missed, but will never forget all those years ago. A few years later they put a hospital there. This was when there were wild quail and pheasants.
