Quail Hunting? (help)

[zman]

Me and a friend have been talking about trying to learn how to quail hunt. Neither of us have ever hunted upland birds before, we have no dog, we do have a small piece of land which has a few wild birds on it and we have two shotguns, a 12 and 20 gauge.

Now, since bird hunting in Alabama is a dying art, I know of nobody to learn this stuff from so my idea was to just go do it. Right now, the best plan I can gather is to just walk about 10 feet apart from each other in a line at the edge of the brushy field and pray that we can flush a couple birds out.

I have no idea if this is a viable plan or just an excercise in futility, but I figured I might as well ask you guys (maybe somebody on here hunts quail) if this might work, or if there is another tactic I might try.

Now I know how all those new bass fishermen feel....