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Post by jimh on Jan 13, 2009 12:12:26 GMT -5
for turkey hunting and the sorts yes, as you are right there and not moving so it's easy to find. basicly if i can easily find them i make an effort to get them. if i can't find them i wont loose sleep over it. target shooting, i pick everyone up. rabbit and upland birds it's like what others have already said, you pick up what you can find but at some point you just move on, especialy if the hunting is going well. also if i'm with a group i'm less likely to bed down right away and pick up shells, i don't like being out of site like that with other folks packing their shotguns. i will at some point ask all to stop while i do bed down to retrieve shells and ask that no onee shoots during that time should something come up.
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Post by jimh on Jan 13, 2009 12:13:52 GMT -5
for turkey hunting and the sorts yes, as you are right there and not moving so it's easy to find. basicly if i can easily find them i make an effort to get them. if i can't find them i wont loose sleep over it. target shooting, i pick everyone up. rabbit and upland birds it's like what others have already said, you pick up what you can find but at some point you just move on, especialy if the hunting is going well. also if i'm with a group i'm less likely to bend down right away and pick up shells, i don't like being out of site like that with other folks packing their shotguns. i will at some point ask all to stop while i do bend down to retrieve shells and ask that no one shoots during that time should something come up.
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Post by dovehunter on Jan 13, 2009 13:51:41 GMT -5
2M:
That sounds like me. Where hunting is concerned I was brought up on the principal that you don't leave anything behind but your footprints.
Everyone will occasionally have to leave some empties behind because you just plain can't find them. However, whatever I do leave behind you can be sure I at least made an attempt to find it.
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Post by Bubba on Jan 13, 2009 18:01:37 GMT -5
I pick mine up all the time. Here's why... back in the late 70's while we were still farming our own farm, the ole man was driving his old Farm-all "M" and hit an empty hull that the plastic had come off and the only thing left was the brass bottom.... he burried the damn thing in a $400 tire and it cut out a perfect "cookie cutter" ... one inch hole in the tire.... I know what it was like to come up with the $400 for a new tire for that old tractor... I can't imagine coming up with the $1000 for a tractor tire today...
I think it's just a good practice to pick them up.... it may save someone some $ in the long-run.
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Post by twomoons on May 13, 2009 15:58:19 GMT -5
On this note when i was cruising the Lake the other day i got really pissed off as one shore was almost solid red with fired shotgun shells. It's a LOT harder finding lures if you have to sort through the shells first! Looks like S#!t too.
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Post by jimiowa on May 13, 2009 19:01:06 GMT -5
On this note when i was cruising the Lake the other day i got really pissed off as one shore was almost solid red with fired shotgun shells. It's a LOT harder finding lures if you have to sort through the shells first! Looks like S#!t too. Yes I mentioned in the other thread that there was a public hunting area on the edge of town that is State Managed. Used to be nice to go out to the edge of town and sight in a rifle. But the slobs started leaving their targets and Beer Cans laying around and now its not open for taget parctice at all.
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