|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,956 Likes: 6
Campfire 'Bwana
|
OP
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,956 Likes: 6 |
I’ve been surprised by the number of guys who leave them where they lay, which can add up to a pile when dove hunting.
Of course, when you do find an old shell in the woods, it tells a story of someone having a good day out there once.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13
Campfire Sage
|
Campfire Sage
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 |
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 21,950 Likes: 13
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 21,950 Likes: 13 |
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,415 Likes: 5
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,415 Likes: 5 |
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.-Richard Henry Lee
Endowment Member NRA, Life Member SAF-GOA, Life-Board Member, West TN Director TFA
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,831 Likes: 2
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,831 Likes: 2 |
Same. Ducks? Maybe - if they float away, no.
"A Republic, if you can keep it." ~ B. Franklin
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,437 Likes: 62
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,437 Likes: 62 |
Oh my does anyone remember thr smell of a paper shell???
Oh my so nice, my grandpa …blah blah blah fuggin blah
Shells?
I leave the birds too 😃
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2017
Posts: 2,733 Likes: 1
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Oct 2017
Posts: 2,733 Likes: 1 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,523 Likes: 2
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,523 Likes: 2 |
Yes. And after owning our farm for 37 years, I may have all the old shotshells my predecessors left laying around picked up.
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,430 Likes: 2
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,430 Likes: 2 |
Always do. No dove hunting here in NJ (they're classified as songbirds, LOL!). Closed season for quail and ruffed grouse, as well, so only upland birds hunting is for pheasant. So nothing that you'd call high volume shooting, but yeah, I pick them up.
I remember years ago, finding just the brass bases in the dirt, proof that they'd been lying there so long the paper hulls had disintegrated. Now the brass plated bases will rust away, leaving the plastic there forever.
"No good deed shall go unpunished!"
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 28,945 Likes: 23
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 28,945 Likes: 23 |
Try to. Autos make it tough.
My club has a nice 5-Stand setup. The shooters all help police the area when done shooting. The wads on the field are another matter. Regrettably, the nice paper hulls and fiber-wad shells that are common, and often required in places like Britain are tough to come by here. I’d buy them if they were available.
Some of our shooters reload, and go through the pick-ups for good hulls like AAs. Those guys are felling the primer crunch too, and shot prices are tough on them too.
What fresh Hell is this?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2020
Posts: 5,196 Likes: 5
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jan 2020
Posts: 5,196 Likes: 5 |
Been planting the same sunflower field with dove loads for 30 years and they still won't grow.
Life is good live it while you can.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 34,355 Likes: 10
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 34,355 Likes: 10 |
I pick it all up.
I load everything I shoot so I keep all my hulls, plus I try not to litter.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 39,319 Likes: 42
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 39,319 Likes: 42 |
Me
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2018
Posts: 8,818 Likes: 14
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2018
Posts: 8,818 Likes: 14 |
Yes. Well I shoot an over/under when upland hunting so my shells never hit the ground.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,956 Likes: 6
Campfire 'Bwana
|
OP
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,956 Likes: 6 |
Now the brass plated bases will rust away, leaving the plastic there forever. True, but it’s interesting if you can read the shot size and load, high brass/low brass, brand/gauge. Single shells don’t bother me much. I would expect the plastic would degrade to fragments before the brass is gone. Incidentally they say every piece of plastic ever made still exists, somewhere.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 8,872 Likes: 27
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 8,872 Likes: 27 |
Rifle shells always, but then I’m a handloader. Shot shells I do if I’m using one of my 16s. I’ve got a Mec, and 16s are hard to find, and expensive when you do. But 12s and 20s, no. 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 8,217 Likes: 9
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 8,217 Likes: 9 |
^^^ This Sitting on a bucket next to a pond shooting doves you’d be a lazy ass to not pick up the pile of empties lying on the dirt. Walking 3 foot high CRP grass for pheasants you’d be a dumbass to root around in the grass for one or two empties while your partners wait on you to continue the push and the birds keep getting further ahead of you.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,911 Likes: 1
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1,911 Likes: 1 |
Yes, which is why I like extractors in my double.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 4,933 Likes: 3
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 4,933 Likes: 3 |
I pick mine up if I can find them and any others I come across.
Trash is trash, no matter the source.
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,737 Likes: 32
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,737 Likes: 32 |
Pisses ranchers off when cattle eat the plastic hulls.
Seen some cattle die from it.
Doesn't make for very good hunter/rancher land relations.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
|
|
|
|
550 members (222Sako, 1minute, 06hunter59, 163bc, 204guy, 1lessdog, 69 invisible),
2,517
guests, and
1,201
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,193,788
Posts18,515,910
Members74,017
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|