To prove the money point, I just spoke with a guy who has 10K acres in S.TX he wants and will probably get $5K a gun, 7 guns max. Now that is from Sept to the end of Feb. but that is way out of my wifes, I mean my range

What is a tresspass fee? I have not heard of that before.

Yall are fighting a lost cause....wild quail have seen there last days in east central and north east texas...just like the turkeys they are slowly thinning out...putting money into managing one section of land would be a waste of time...rappid public growth and what large ranches that are left being split up and sold into sections is reducing habbitat greatly. You have to have a VERY large stretch of natural quail habbitat to be able to turnover birds from a new hatch and keep the population growing. One 4,000-10,000 acre ranch under management still wont ever be able to hold healthy numbers to hunt without pilling pen raised birds into it...south texas still has a good number of large open ranches and simply is why they still have healthy numbers of quail. If your around this area or dallas or whatever your better off saving that insane amount of money your paying for a freaking quail lease and all that gas money.....and start duck hunting hahahaha

I got permission from my neighbor to release flight conditioned birds on his place. I love to quail hunt so I save up money to buy flight conditioned birds for my birthday. My brothers and I go out and release them on my place and my neighbors place a couple days before we hunt them. (I usually take a few days off work for my birthday.) When my buddies show up on the weekend its a good time for all. We try to get them all since pen reared birds just don't have the instincts to survive that wild birds do. We have no wild bird population.