DO you pick up your shotgun shells
10-24-2006, 09:46 AM
#23
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 33
RE: DO you pick up your shotgun shells
Shotgun shells are litter and should be treated as such. The brass rusts away but the plastic tube remains for years. Land owners don't appreciate mowing over them or plowing them up. You wouldn't throw paper plate on the ground on purposewould you?
10-27-2006, 11:37 AM
#24
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Posts: 1,149
RE: DO you pick up your shotgun shells
I pick them up if I remember to, butI don't think it's that important.I shoot a semi auto so it's rather hard to find the spent ones. If I'm on private land or WMA's I will especially try to remember.
10-27-2006, 04:48 PM
#25
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Albuquerque NM USA
Posts: 44
RE: DO you pick up your shotgun shells
Yea, always have as we hunt on my buddies father-in-law's farm out of respect for him, plus as Crazy Horse RVN stated, also due to the bovine inhabitants.
Kinda bums me out when I am hunting or hiking and run across spent shells that are sun rotted and crispy laying around. Not flaming anyone, but just MHO...
Kinda bums me out when I am hunting or hiking and run across spent shells that are sun rotted and crispy laying around. Not flaming anyone, but just MHO...
10-27-2006, 07:56 PM
#26
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 110
RE: DO you pick up your shotgun shells
I do most all the time. I have had occasions where I have not thought about it because I'm focused on the hunt, but I try to remember. I see no difference between the cases and used drink cans and paper wrapers. It just looks bad to see them lying around. Moreover when I sight in my rifles in I pick up the brass, and other people's garbage most of the time. I draw the line on .22brass except my own...just too much around!
