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As evidenced by the background cover in some of the previous pictures, policing every shell thrown by an autoloader in a woodcock covert is an exercise in futility . . . not that I haven't tried it. Once was enough, though. . . .

Ejectors!

America is more libertarian than the UK or the continent. Individualism and the rights of the individual (as long as it lasts) are at the heart of our founding documents. This also has its bad side. Barring rules and regulations on every individual’s actions and his property, it gives rise to ugly and decaying properties and the refuse we can find in every state.

I’ve hunted the golden Pheasant Lands of SD for decades, and while spotting a spent shotgun hull is not uncommon, by no means is the ground littered with them even on lands shot from October through January year after year.

Unless you have another guy perpetually on your hip to quickly reload your gun as in the uplands and Heather of England, you will miss many, many opportunities, on pheasants anyway. Some spent shotgun hulls on the ground are the very least of our worries

But, it’s nice to have the freedom to choose.

Spot on.