Do you pick up your empties? (Shells that is)

When Do you pick up your empties?

  • Shotgun Shells Only

    Votes: 7 3.0%

  • Brass (for reloading purposes or not)

    Votes: 31 13.1%

  • Both...doesnt matter I never leave behind a mess

    Votes: 189 80.1%

  • Ah who cares...they'll blow/float away

    Votes: 9 3.8%
  • Total voters
    236
I pick my brass up. If its a kill I write on the case the time,date, and animal taken and put them with my collection on my reloading bench:) I did this with the first animal I took with my reloads and it just kinda of stuck. If for some reason I missed:redface: I pick it up and take it home for reloading and hope for better karma.
 
i pick up all my spent hulls and brass as well as other guys. ifind alot in spring from other guys shootin at deer in heavy snow, learn alot about where other guys got shooting opportunities as another bonus to cleaning up our image.
 
Long time ago in the cypress hills on the alberta side above the fort(walsh) I found a 30-40 craig---pretty cool find I thought and so if I am in a remote place and have made a shot on an animal I will never pick it up--bad luck too--and maybe in a few decades someone may find the 308 win brass and wonder who was shootin and for what??? It's kinda like finding and arrowhead.:cool:
 
Dave L. said:
*sees a single .22LR spent brass*

*pounces*

It's mine! I saw it first! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Back off! You can't have it! You'll pry this from my cold, dead hands! Haha! All mine! All mine!

:D

- Dave.
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You're 3 counties away, not one, those are not my brass your finding unless your shooting in Halton. Or Peel.
 
horshur said:
Long time ago in the cypress hills on the alberta side above the fort(walsh) I found a 30-40 craig---pretty cool find I thought and so if I am in a remote place and have made a shot on an animal I will never pick it up--bad luck too--and maybe in a few decades someone may find the 308 win brass and wonder who was shootin and for what??? It's kinda like finding and arrowhead.:cool:
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I agree, when I was a teenager out hunting on my dad's land, I found an old 303 brass case. It looked as old as the dirt around it. Since only my grandpa and dad were the only one's that hunted that region, I imagine it was an old shell that grandpa left there back in his hunting days. Kind of interesting to stand out there where my grandpa stood some 60 years earlier.:)
 
I went hunting with a guy and his son who dropped things when they were done with them. Candy wrappers, plastic oil bottles, you name it, when they were finished with it, it hit the ground. I got tired of picking up after them, and they never got the hint.
 
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MHUNT said:
I went hunting with a guy and his son who dropped things when they were done with them. Candy rappers, plastic oil bottles, you name it, when they were finished with it, it hit the ground. I got tired of picking up after them, and they never got the hint.
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Time to quit hinting and speak your mind (?).

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Hey Twister. These are the sort of guys who have to wash a pot that was left dirty from the night before, so they can cook lunch. They are not about to change, so I just don't hunt with them anymore.
 
My dad's an electrician and always ends up with lots of scrap copper that he sells off after. I keep all the brass and just give it to my pops. He'll throw in the brass with the copper for a few extra bucks. I don't like leaving stuff behind in the field. I only leave it if it's biodegradable or I honest to God can't find it.
 
One of the best things I ever found for my Swedish Mauser...
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A vintage brass catcher. :)

I hate chasing brass all over the place...especially when it is as expensive, and hard to get as 6.5x55 Swede, and it is a caliber I reload for.
 
Amphibious said:
+1 I always have a few black garbage bags in my glove box. a day trip in the bush usually sees them both full upon return.
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My Cousin owns a 100 acre property about an hour north of the big smoke. It has the Pine river flowing right through the middle of it. Prime trout water! Everytime I go there I fill at least 4 black garbage bags full of empty bottles, cans, tp, timmys cups, cig packages, etc, etc. I am so mad when I am finished I could just spit. And people wonder why the NO TRESPASSING signs go up. One time I was sitting quietly on the riverbank & a yahoo walked by & threw his coffee cup on the ground. I stood up & told him to pick it up. He replied, You pick it up. I think they might have heard my response all the way back in TO. I do feel sorry for all the respectful fishermen that are now shut out of a wonderful place to fish & enjoy nature, all becase of a few idiots. I always pickup trash wherever I see it, public or private land.

George
 
Kind'a makes me wonder what some peoples houses look like inside if they litter on other peoples property like that.
 
Calum said:
Kind'a makes me wonder what some peoples houses look like inside if they litter on other peoples property like that.
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Probably clean as a whistle. Just only because it is their place and they wouldnt have that mess around there. Just like the time someone decided to throw a Zehrs bag full of paper garbage into the back of my truck. First things first, if your gonna do that MAKE SURE YOUR ADDRESS IS NOT ALL OVER EVERYTHING. At least that individual didnt live too far away and lets just say he got his garbage back,,,all over his front porch.
 
I try to leave nothing but foot prints when in the bush. but somedays I wonder why I bother,since the municipality of Kenora has gone to a waste transfer system people are dumping al kinds of stuff in the bush to save money .Pisses me off to no end. I realize that the system of desposal is expensive here but I don't see it as an excuse to dump your garbage in the bush. The people that are doing this are to blame but I think that the township can share in the blame . It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what people are going to do when it is $2.00 a bag and a minimum of $15.00 for a truckload, It goes up by weight I forget the exact amount but it cost $140.00 to get rid of the old shingles from reroofing my under 1000 square foot house. Ok rant mode off now.:mad:
 
Fastidious about pocketting empty hulls ! ( and it isn't a tough
thing to do with a SxS or O/U ! )

It's taken me literally "years" to find some of my better ( more productive) grouse & woodcock coverts ... and I ain't about to give them away by leaving a trail of empties behind me !

Even take pains to park well-away from where I actually go in.

Don't tell where I go ... and even trusted guests may get the blind-fold
treatment if they get invited along.

I don't even want to leave footprints !!! ;)

Pretty much the same with good speckled trout water.
Want it to stay good ... be quiet about it !!!
 
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