Always heard that many a good pointer...has a bit of lead in it's tail.
Cannot tell....who's to blame here..or if there is blame to be had.
All that being said.....one needs to know one's field of fire.
"wish to hell it had been Ahmadinejad rather than Whittington I was hunting with"!
Raising Weimeraners, I do not take my mutt quail hunting. Too easily hurt.