The amount of modern smallgame/upland hunters are very small these days Chuck. You'd have to ask the waterfowlers - really the only ones week-in and week-out with a shotgun in their hands.
...and your right, they'd pick a auto.
Missouri in the fifties and sixties was the quail state to be in.
Bet not more than a handful of men with quail dogs and quail wands could be found on any given weekend today.
I'd go with the 12b.