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I always pick up my hulls. I reload and I shoot a double. Makes it easy and worth it.
Laws aren't preventative measures. In other words, more laws won't prevent gun crime from happening.
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I pick it all up.
I load everything I shoot so I keep all my hulls, plus I try not to litter. THIS
If you find yourself in a hole....quit digging
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LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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YUp, when upland hunting and before lead was banned for migratory birds.. Those Win AA and Peters Blue Magic hulls were reloaded many times. When waterfowling I pick up all that I can reach, but the odd one floats away when it's windy.
Had to watch the crimps on the older hulls. I had an accidental discharge at the skeet range when a crimp opened just bit and a no. 9 pellet got loose and fell into the Ithaca M37 trigger group. I was cycling the action to unload a shell and BOOM. Muzzle was pointed in safe direction as was my standard practice.
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I consider it good...when I go afield and come back w more empties than what I made. State dove places, some A holes just leave em all. Rules say pick em up.
People suck.
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Dove hunting try too as best as possible. Last year wasn't a issue 🥴🥴🥴😔 Tree rats ... hell no ain't searching for them. Too much moving around. Turkey I will save the spent shell to go along with the kill.
Let's hear some comments the non posting " pics or it never happened" apple dumpling gang types.... 🤣🤣🤣
Oh PS.. Solid guys that don't post pics, we don't doubt what you cats post. Remember that guy that stopped by that big oak tree we was at the day before ? On Robertson?? “Gahhhhhh dayummmm” 🤣
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I pick mine up and usually others that I see too. Can’t believe how many guys are too damn lazy to bend over and pick up their litter when the shells are clearly visible!
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Yes Try to pick them all up as most of the places I have access to hunt are cattle ranches.
Your mind is your primary weapon. Never let it get rusty.
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A little off-topic, but a few years ago exploring a slot canyon in Utah, I found a very old 25-35 shell on a bench above the canyon bottom. It made me wonder who and when and under what circumstances that shell was fired. It had definitely become a relic and was no longer trash.
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"They stay as they lay."
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I even try to pick up spent brass when hunting. .22s are about the only thing I don't pick up.
Politics is War by Other Means
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No upland hunting. It’s been 40 years since I’ve hunted pheasant’s that’s hard to believe. I’ve hunted deer since I was fourteen.
Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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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 😃 LOL!
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Yes. Well I shoot an over/under when upland hunting so my shells never hit the ground. ^ This Empties go in the pouch with the birds. Jerry
Minnesota; Land of 10,000 Taxes
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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. Picking up shotgun shells after a hunt was boiler plate language in almost every lease contract we ever signed and you could find your lease terminated real quickly if this wasn't adhered to. Can understand the cattle eating them after watching a cow trying to eat the sparkplug wires off a running irrigation motor. They ain't the brightest critters.
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I picked mine up, reloaded them
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As a general rule I don’t litter. This thread also reminded me I haven’t shot a shotgun in probably 6-7 years.
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Yes. And anyone hunting with me as well.
Don't trash the woods up.
Can't always reasonably find them. And I don't start a search party. But I pick up every shell I see.
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
If you know how many guns you own... you don't own enough.
In God We Trust.
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I don't spend much time searching but grab most of them while hunting.
I pick up empties all year while out and about, makes up for the ones you leave behind.
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Usually...
Not always, depends on gun used and property I'm on.
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