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The topic on ejectors or extrctors got me to wondering how many people leave their hulls in the field. One of the reasons for catching them is because I reload. And sometimes I use the loads/shells that I use for trap shooting. But I still like to catch them because I like to leave the fields clean. Sometimes I will pick up other shells that people have left in the field just for that reason. Am I being too picky or do you guys catch your own hulls all of the time too?

I agree with your practice and for the all same reasons.
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I don't reload, and I don't leave any empties in the field. Also prefer extractors over ejectors. Sometimes I backslide and use my Sweet 16 and lose an empty, should know better than use an auto.

I use extractor doubles in the field. Even if I'm not reloading the hulls, I pack them out. I police up my hulls ejected from the Model 37 and Model 51 also. As a Boy Scout I was taught - As sportsmen, we are supposed to be conservationists - I think that this means that we don't leave our trash messing up the view for the next people who are there. Spent hulls are trash.

My two cents, anyway.

Regards

GKT

Last big dove field I was one I literally seen hundreds of empties all over the field..its disgusting.. pick up your hulls, Its what a good hunter should do.

It is imperative we pickup every spent shell in the field...even those of others. The land is not ours, we are merely caretakers for the future.

Jim

You are not being pickly. I like clean fields and I catch or pick up(mine and others)all hulls.

My habit is to take a couple of saved plastic grocery store bags with me for trash .. hulls, mine & any others I might pickup along the way, pop cans [I stomp them flat] or whatever else I find that is objectionable in the field. The plastic bags weigh nothing to carry in and I try to practice a rule of bringing more out than I brought in. Unfortunately, most of the time it is possible to do that. Not always, but often enough. Doing it sets a positive example for others and is almost never unappreciated by the land owner.

BTW, I find hulls from the field are not usually suitable for reloading as they go in the bag with the birds initially if its dove or quail and get feathers and blood on them and if they are picked up off the ground there is sand and dirt involved. If it is waterfowl being hunted then the floor of the blind or boat bottom is usually wet &/or muddy and the dogs are shaking water over everything too even if it is not raining on that particular hunt. For those reasons my reloading hulls come from the gun club or my own target shooting activities.

Who's the caretaker.
Land ownership passes from generation to generation - what better can we leave to our future families than land.
...and, I bet there are those who think the guy with the ejector gun, leaves all the empties.
There is no heat of battle, open-up the gun, and ping - I just turn around and pick them up. So easy!

I don't reload, but I always pick up my hulls and any others that I see no matter where or what I am hunting. When I take friends hunting on my place, there are several requests that I make. Most of them relate to safety, but I also ask them to pick up their hulls or any others that they see.

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