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

[woodchopper]

I don't use a shotgun so thats not a concern.

Rifle brass, as I open the bolt I catch the spent brass and pocket it, I don't want it to hit the ground and get dirty saves time in the tumbler later.

 

[Mike Oxbig]

Pick em up! You shoot it... You pick it up!
It's like a candy wrapper or fast food packaging. If you eat the meal in it, then you don't just toss the wrapper into the grass! That's littering and illegal and bad for our wildlife. Mind you if I took the time to look and couldn't find em all, i wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Plus it reflects badly on all of us as hunters and shooters when people find ammo all over the place! It gives those Libs yet another reason to take our gunstoo!
Mike

 

[jurban]

Don't be lazy pick up your trash it keep our outdoor clear for the next gen to enjoy...... plan and simply Brass, Shootgun shell, or any trash... Don't leave it in our great outdoors.

 

[death-junky]

Only my brass, never know when i may want to start reloading.
ttyal
Riley

 

[tracker]

We pick up all of our shells, brass and any others left behind by others hunters including tin cans, bottles etc. At our camp in northern Ontario we always bring out more garbage than we take in including the floating bags.

 

[impala]

leaving hunting areas full of trash makes us look bad I pick up anything i drop and I put anything non natural in my pack.kind of ruins the outdoors when there is trash every were.

 

[Turbo]

I pick up my spent hulls and centre fire brass and if I see any lying around usually pick them up too. I never seem to think of picking up that 22 lr brass though maybe I should. Last time i was out I found some interesting (to me) shotgun shell empties: instead of a plastic shell both were made of cardboard. One was made in Poland and has 3,00 mm written on it. The other is made in Czechoslovakia and has 70 on the side.

 

[walksalot]

Brass is $1.00 a pound at the recycle. I realize that a caseing doesn't weigh much but you would be amazed how quickly they add up.
I only use my own brass or once fired factory brass. The problem with useing strange brass which has been reloaded is you don't know how many times the caseing has been reloaded. The caseing may be there for a reason.

 

[bigdawg]

sometimes its hard to find all your little 22/other rimfires but i always get all my centerfire/shotshells

 

[Foxer]

sometimes its hard to find all your little 22/other rimfires but i always get all my centerfire/shotshells

I'll confess - if there's a 'pile' of 22's i'll pick up as many as I can see, but if there's a few left here and there i'm not going to worry about it. They're not the same sort of 'eyesore' centerfire or shotshells are.