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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034191 01/20/23
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,620 Likes: 1 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,620 Likes: 1 Orange Park, Florida	OF COURSE A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034205 01/20/23
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,622 Likes: 1 Columbia, S.C. SCGunNut Campfire Tracker
SCGunNut Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,622 Likes: 1 Columbia, S.C.	My dove club requires empties to be carried out, but I spend half my time picking up empties from the dipsh*ts that don't clean up after themselves. I don't pick them up when squirrel hunting in the woods. I follow an old guy on Youtube who does a lot of metal detecting in the TN mountains. He finds a lot of 100+ year old shotshell heads and that's pretty cool.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034364 01/20/23
Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 South Florida deflave Campfire Sage
deflave Campfire Sage Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 South Florida	I love the dead cow/horse stories. LOL Gimme a fugking break. Originally Posted by Geno67 Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Originally Posted by Judman Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. Originally Posted by KSMITH My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034396 01/20/23
Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 4,350 Oregon L longarm Campfire Tracker
longarm Campfire Tracker L Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 4,350 Oregon	Yep, all of them.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034476 01/20/23
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Colorado1135 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 13,606 Middle of SD	Yes, only slobs leave their garbage outdoors. Same for rifle brass. Pick it all up if at all possible Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young. Calm seas don't make sailors.

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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? deflave #18034885 01/20/23
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,673 Likes: 18 Not In The City rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna
rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,673 Likes: 18 Not In The City	Originally Posted by deflave I love the dead cow/horse stories. LOL Gimme a fugking break. It's a fact. On our ranch out west, dove hunters left a bunch of hulls around waterings and the ones I found later were chewed up by cattle. No telling how many were swallowed. It causes a condition known as hardware disease and it is a fatal condition. Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034904 01/20/23
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k22hornet Campfire Regular K Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 586 Castle Rock	Yes, mine as well as others I find. Brass too.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034967 01/20/23
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 23,036 Likes: 6 SW Montana V VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger
VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger V Joined: May 2003 Posts: 23,036 Likes: 6 SW Montana	Birdwatcher: Waterfowl - always! Upland Game Birds 90% of the time. We have game wardens here in SW Montana that HAVE issued "littering citations" for waterfowlers I know who have left the spent shot shell hulls in the field. I have come across piles of 3 1/2" shot shells lying in wheat fields that other "Hunters" discarded and I have even picked them up. I imagine the farmers who own the fields don't really want the hulls lying around? Hold into the wind VarmintGuy

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18034978 01/20/23
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 5,180 Likes: 6 D dassa Campfire Tracker
dassa Campfire Tracker D Joined: May 2008 Posts: 5,180 Likes: 6	Originally Posted by Birdwatcher Originally Posted by JeffyD 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. All matter ever made exists somewhere.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035252 01/20/23
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IndyCA35 Campfire Outfitter I Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 11,505 The North Coast	Always. Don't blame me. I voted for Trump. Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.

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Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035304 01/20/23
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 8,073 Deer Park Texas hasbeen1945 Campfire Outfitter
hasbeen1945 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 8,073 Deer Park Texas	Unfortunately could not get them all . When quail hunting some always find their way into some cactus. Hasbeen hasbeen (Better a has been than a never was!) NRA Patron member Try to live your life where the preacher doesn't have to lie at your funeral

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035340 01/20/23
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,325 Saskatchewan, Canada C castnblast Campfire Regular
castnblast Campfire Regular C Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,325 Saskatchewan, Canada	Anybody who I allow to hunt on my land picks up their empty hull mess. If not, they aren't invited back. Ever.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035346 01/20/23
Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,302 Republic of Texas crshelton Campfire Regular
crshelton Campfire Regular Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,302 Republic of Texas	I shoot double guns and the spent shells never hit the ground. CRS, NRA Benefactor Life Member, Whittington Center, TSRA, DWWC, DRSS Android Reloading Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035391 01/20/23
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earlybrd Campfire Outfitter E Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 14,836 Likes: 7	I leave them for artifacts I’ve run across some from 30 yrs ago brought back memories

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035503 01/20/23
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roverboy Campfire Regular Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 2,347 Moss, Tn.	I didn't always as a kid but, have picked them up for a long time. Why do I have to press 1, for English?

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035512 01/20/23
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5sdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 38,902 Likes: 6 South of Minnesota	Yes Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile. Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe) Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? earlybrd #18035606 01/20/23
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shrapnel Campfire Ranger Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 24,594 Likes: 8 Bozeman, MT	Originally Posted by earlybrd I leave them for artifacts I’ve run across some from 30 yrs ago brought back memories I'm glad these guys didn't pick up their shells. Candy wrappers, cigarette butts and other small waste, is a whole different thing, but shells tell history...

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? shrapnel #18035670 01/20/23
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 32,130 Likes: 1 Somewhere between lost and fou... kingston Campfire 'Bwana
kingston Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 32,130 Likes: 1 Somewhere between lost and fou...	I'm reminded of the pictures of the US dumping munitions into the ocean after WWII. One picture that I remember in particular showed them dumping a huge quantity of brass artillry shells. Originally Posted by 16penny If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035674 01/20/23
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Dave_Spn Campfire Regular D Joined: Oct 2022 Posts: 930	Mostly not, but I also burn tires. What if Jessie's girl is Stacy's mom, and her phone number is 867-5309

Re: Do you pick up your spent shotgun shells when hunting? Birdwatcher #18035675 01/20/23
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Billy_Goat Campfire Regular Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 830 Denton, TX	I switched to an over/under just so I wouldnt lose them by accident anymore on dove. pn pheasants, I take the semi, and loose a couple a year, but not many. First teach a child to love God, second teach him to love family, third teach him to fish and hunt and by the time he is in his teens no dope dealer under the sun can teach him anything. Cotton Cordell

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