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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033521 01/20/23
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 2,200 Elizabeth, CO T TRnCO Campfire Regular
TRnCO Campfire Regular T Joined: May 2011 Posts: 2,200 Elizabeth, CO	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? steve4102 #18033530 01/20/23
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jmp300wsm Campfire Tracker Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 3,133 Arizona	Originally Posted by steve4102 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

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033553 01/20/23
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pete53 Campfire Outfitter P Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 8,305 Northern USA	YES LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033568 01/20/23
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Aagaardsporter Campfire Regular A Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 525 Mid Michigan	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033580 01/20/23
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hookeye Campfire Ranger H Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 17,821 Armpit of midwest	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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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? renegade50 #18033593 01/20/23
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slumlord Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 67,168 Likes: 38 TN	Originally Posted by renegade50 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” 🤣

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033640 01/20/23
Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,201 W. Pa. B basdjs Campfire Regular
basdjs Campfire Regular B Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,201 W. Pa.	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!

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033642 01/20/23
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HTDUCK Campfire Regular H Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 883 Parker, Tx	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. Endowment Member NRA

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033654 01/20/23
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eblake Campfire Regular E Joined: Jun 2015 Posts: 976 Northern New England	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033686 01/20/23
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hillestadj Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 5,135 WI	"They stay as they lay."

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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033693 01/20/23
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 14,723 Likes: 2 Tyrone Campfire Outfitter
Tyrone Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 14,723 Likes: 2	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

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033709 01/20/23
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Whelenman Campfire Outfitter Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 14,180 Likes: 1 The town Del Shannon made famo...	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? slumlord #18033762 01/20/23
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270jrk Campfire Regular 2 Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,647	Originally Posted by slumlord 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!

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Jackson_Handy #18033771 01/20/23
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Jerryv Campfire Regular J Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,416 Minnesota	Originally Posted by Jackson_Handy 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

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? rockinbbar #18033793 01/20/23
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Chisos Campfire Regular Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,625 Between Hondo and Bandera	Originally Posted by rockinbbar 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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033798 01/20/23
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hanco Campfire Savant Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,768 Likes: 15 Texas	I picked mine up, reloaded them

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033857 01/20/23
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Timbermaster Campfire Tracker T Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 6,421 Likes: 2 MT/GA	As a general rule I don’t litter. This thread also reminded me I haven’t shot a shotgun in probably 6-7 years. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ 3-7-77

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18033983 01/20/23
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Bocajnala Campfire Regular B Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 2,430 North East Ohio	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034116 01/20/23
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Backroads Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,838 Montana	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.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034186 01/20/23
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PineTop Campfire Member P Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 190 East Texas	Usually... Not always, depends on gun used and property I'm on.

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