I am soooooooo damn tired of picking up other peoples trash

[sakoshooter]

My duck hunting partner and I picked up another pile of trash at Nisqually Tuesday.
Spent Shells: These are trash.
Empty Beverage Cans: These are also trash.
Cigarette Butts: These are trash.
Candy Wrappers: These are trash too.
Cardboard Shotgun Shell Boxes: These are also trash.
To all of you selfish, self centered so called waterfowl hunters that leave the above in the woods or marsh - Extract Your Cranium from Your Rectum. You're ruining this sport for those of us that really care about it.

My next camouflage jacket purchase will be for the new Washington Duck Blind camo. It will have lots of brightly colored shotgun shells, Red Bull and Budweiser cans and Misc other forms of trash splashed all across it. This way I'll actually blend in with the surroundings.

If this thread is not you, please help out this sport, yourself and the rest of us that care by picking up this trash when you come across it please. I do this every time I hunt but sometimes feel like the Lone Ranger when doing so.

[goosegetter79]

Pisses me off as well. A couple years ago I took a coworker of mine out duck hunting and when we were getting ready to leave I started picking up the spent shells and other garbage that was around and he asked why I was doing it. Let's just say he got a lesson given to him and I haven't hunted with him since.

[rtspring]

Man I hear ya,

I usually take a trash bag and pick up old shotgun shells and empty soda cans. Damn People its trash, take it the hell home with ya, (EVEN IF YOU DIDN"T BRING IT).......

[ICEMAN]

Great post Sako!  I hear you!  We pick up crap every year.

This year when I cleanup the capitol forest I am bringing my generator and shopvac so I can suck up all the broken glass and debris too small to get by hand.

[Miles]

Great post Sako!  I hear you!  We pick up crap every year.

This year when I cleanup the capitol forest I am bringing my generator and shopvac so I can suck up all the broken glass and debris too small to get by hand.

Iceman, I know you are pretty involved with cleaning up trash in certain areas from your past posts.   I came across a product the other day that may be of interest to you.  It's called Turtleskin and they make snake chaps along with gloves and body armor type products.  They make some gloves that are highly resistant to needle pokes and sharp objects.  They may be a nice thing to have when picking up some of the junk that's left out there.

[Miles]

Here you go:

https://www.turtleskin.com/store/category.aspx?categoryID=4

[ICEMAN]

Thanks for the info/idea...

Most of the glass is usually vaporized from shooting...really small fragments....  I hate leaving the glass when we spend a day cleaning up the larger stuff...   If  I bring a large enough shop vac I bet I can just vac up alot of the shotgun shells too....save my back!

I have even toyed with the idea of trying one of those leaf blowers which will run in reverse as a yard vac...

[ICEMAN]

Miles, I am liking their police gear line.... here is the one I want!   https://www.turtleskin.com/store/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TUS-002

[Miles]

Miles, I am liking their police gear line.... here is the one I want!   https://www.turtleskin.com/store/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TUS-002

They are very cool.  I sure wouldn't want to be searching individuals without having them on.   Here's a video on the police gloves.

I was looking for some snake chaps for warm weather hunting in California when I came across the turtleskin company.  They have some pretty neat products, that's for sure.

[runamuk]

Great post Sako!  I hear you!  We pick up crap every year.

This year when I cleanup the capitol forest I am bringing my generator and shopvac so I can suck up all the broken glass and debris too small to get by hand.

the dog pooper scoopers with a rake ....they work fabulous for broken glass and shell casings...and you never have to touch anything 

the capitol forest is a notorious pig sty....which is really sad....I have never understood people who take their trash to the woods to dump it....

[pianoman9701]

I get PO'd, too. It amazes me that people can be out in the incredible woods and mountains that we have and not think twice about throwing a bud light can out the window or dumping their tires over a bank. It is amazing to me. I got a couple of my conservation hours for my original MH cert by picking up shells and trash at the local WDFW hunting area in Vancouver. Two large bags of trash in just a couple of hours - all from fellow hunters.

I did catch some guys dumping once at Vancouver lake and reported them. I never heard if anything came of it. I'm sure if it went to court I'd have been called but wasn't.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Do not need to tell me .... when humpies run up the Skagit it is liter fest ... I have picked up many bags of sheet .... the good thing about it is if you tell the people at the dump you picked up garbage from the river bank they will let you toss it for free ...you sure would think people would care more about land we all enjoy !!

[rebal69972]

this is a problem everwhere i took a truck load of trash and an officer took 3 bags of beer cans and bottles out of the mossyrock area this year and didnt make a dent in all the trash

[boneaddict]

Somebody dumped a whole bag of it at the feeding station this weekend.   I wondered if it was in protest to the discover pass or just some lazy cheap *censored*.    Whoever it was didn't identify their themselves in the trash.....(one reason I think it was on purpose)

[44 Flattop]

I live up Winston Creek.  The amount of trash in the timber behind my house each season is sad.  Pop cans, beer cans and candy wrappers for the most part. 

44

[SurfingScooter]

Yep, It puts me in a bad mood when I am hunting and I come across trash.  Shotgun shells are not as big of a deal. For every other type of trash there is no exuse for it.  In terms of shells I can see how a few shells might float away and anyone whose going to paddle across half the bay to find that one stray shell, good luck with that.  I've hunted in the same spot for several years now and it seems to me the few empty shells that escape my grasp must sink into the peat by the time the next season comes around. 

[timber_ghost]

I would just like to say thank you to everyone that does take the extra time to pick up either there own or someone else's  trash  . It always felt like I was the only one and I am glad to hear that there are more people trying to make a difference. Keep up the good work!!

[rtspring]

Went out today for some waterfowl and found and old car battery? I would like to catch the idiot that just throws car batteries around...

[Kola16]

I like to pick up other people's shells because I can reload them. Besides that, I half to take a trash bag to my duck blind or else the ducks will see the trash and not come in.

[sakoshooter]

Yep, It puts me in a bad mood when I am hunting and I come across trash.  Shotgun shells are not as big of a deal.

I beg to differ on spent shells. Community spots at Nisqually, Moses Lk, Potholes and the Columbia River can and do get seriously littered with them to the extent that wearing camo is fruitless.
I'm wearing over $500.00 worth of camo when I'm duck hunting and sitting in a spot covered with red, green, silver, blue, black etc spent shells all with shiny, sun refecting bases left by previous so-called duck hunters. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me. They do not rot. They're easy to see after shooting so simply pick them up. What's the difference between spent shells and pop cans.
On one afternoon at Nisqually last year, my hunting partner and I picked up(slow day for ducks)a hefty trash bag of mostly spent shells. I could hardly lift the bag when we were done. Many of these hulls were years old but exposed from wave action and ther breaking down of the land from storms. Since that day we pick up about a plastic grocery sack each time we hunt that spot.
I would say that spent shells are a bigger problem than any other item at the spots I've hunted over the years. Many people don't think empty shells are a big thing. I hope you change your mind sir.

[bobcat]

I rememeber going duck hunting with my dad as a kid, and him looking at me funny and wondering what was wrong with me, when I would pick up all the empty shells at the end of the hunt.  I think that's why a lot of hunters don't even think about picking up empties.

[lokidog]

Yep, It puts me in a bad mood when I am hunting and I come across trash.  Shotgun shells are not as big of a deal. For every other type of trash there is no exuse for it.  In terms of shells I can see how a few shells might float away and anyone whose going to paddle across half the bay to find that one stray shell, good luck with that.  I've hunted in the same spot for several years now and it seems to me the few empty shells that escape my grasp must sink into the peat by the time the next season comes around.

Actually, they drift out here to our island.....     It amazes me, when we do our annual Decatur Island School Beach Cleanup, how many shotgun shells we find washed up.  Especially since the nearest duck hunters are probably eight or more miles away.  Two years ago, we picked up probably 400 pounds of garbage. 

The big ole plastic bag ban won't effect us though since we rarely see them, maybe they all stay in King County    We sure do see a lot of plastic water and pop bottles though.

Good job on helping keep the woods clean!   

[nontypical176]

In Idaho there are rivers posted "NO GLASS BOTTLES", a pretty cool rule really.  We seen some local yocalls there surrounding a coulple of camps full of disrespectful pukes that had garbage spread everywhere.  They made them campers pick up every piece of garbage in the area, right down to the cigarrette butts and blackwater tanks they had just let dump onto the ground, it was awesome vigialanty justice.  Its about the only time I like to see signs up...Respect our riveres and such, at least it gets people thinking and there should be a huge sign posted at the beginning of every major road following a river or forest access area.  Them little bitty Pack it Out signs don't cut it.  And bigger penaltlies for violaitors.

Its one of the saddest things to see here in North America, garbage  spread across this beautiful ground.  I know people that own land along the Kalama and Coweeman rivers that don't allow trespassing anymore just because of garbage and its sickening.  I've got fishing and hunting rights on a couple spots just for picking up extra trash.  Its a lot easier to gain access into an area if you can offer something in return...Y'all might keep that in mind the next time you ask to hunt/fish a private property, offer the landowners some free garbage detail.  Picking up a bag of trash doesn't take long at all.  I've got permanent fishing rights to a prime chunk of salmon/stealhead ground by hauling off a mattress and couch that was dumped on private ground along the Elochoman river.  I had it already loaded in the back of my truck when I knocked on their door to ask for access permission and I made a good friend as an added bonus.

[jeepguy]

trash has made it alot harder toget on private land . waterfowl hunting 2 years ago @ welts the last couple of weeks was amazing how much crap was left , fold up chairs buckets shell casings cans thermos's cup's bird carcass'es  that someone breasted out and piled up along a path  fece's t.p clothes gun wipes  at the parking lot there were black plastic bags full what appeared tobe  more bird carcass 'es  just pathetic. i wonder who picks it all up at the end of the season ??

[ICEMAN]

Teach them young.

[jeepguy]

yes i agree teach'em young  just as i was  the area i described in above post was just overwhelming i guess a guy or better yet a group  could gain permission to drive a truck down the roads there and pick up after the season it was atleast a disheartening sight  that last day

[Smokepole]

We used to find huge pile of trash up in the high lakes.  Packed out many a load of that crap.  Right now my concern is the Seapost Road between Arlington and Darrington where everyone and his uncle go shooting.  It's a great place to shoot, but it won't be long and they will gate the road.  Tv's, microwaves, shells, clays - thars sheet everywhere!  Not to mention some contractor dumped his demo debris in one of the pull-offs. 

If anyone uses Seapost for shooting or recreation and wants to help with a clean up day, let me know!  It would take days for one guy!

[jeepguy]

c-post off 530 where they shoot'n in the logg'n unit's at the bottom

[Smokepole]

Yep, spelled it wrong.  It's a great place to shoot, but I'm afraid we're gonna get locked out if it gets much worse.  I can't believe they let it go this long.

[jeepguy]

probley  if there's a group together maybe i'll go

[Smokepole]

I'll contact the dnr gal up there and see if they can help with a truck or some bags.  Maybe we can get some folks to help this spring when it warms up!

[Skagit_Hunter]

I rememeber going duck hunting with my dad as a kid, and him looking at me funny and wondering what was wrong with me, when I would pick up all the empty shells at the end of the hunt.  I think that's why a lot of hunters don't even think about picking up empties.

I grew up the same. Waxed paper shells broke down fast. So they never use to pick them up.

[Camp David]

I picked up a bunch of spent 12ga a few years ago. This is a 15 shell limit area. We were stopped by a game warden on the way out and he checked those old shells thinking that these were ours....Be carefull with what you pack out; They may think it's yours.

[Skagit_Hunter]

I picked up a bunch of spent 12ga a few years ago. This is a 15 shell limit area. We were stopped by a game warden on the way out and he checked those old shells thinking that these were ours....Be carefull with what you pack out; They may think it's yours.

This is why they leave them there. Because they shoot more than 15. But it is easy to tell if it is a old or new shot shell.
I just keep mine separate from the others that I pick up.
The gammie was just yanking your chain

[jeepguy]

ya when i hunt 15 shell areas i keep my spent shell 's in a separate ziploc bag a so all is acounted for.

[Smokepole]

 
c-post was cleaned up twice last year that I know of and you couldn't tell two weeks later. I know a few people that try to help keep it cleaned up just to many people leaving there trash. I try to pick some up all the time but, you need a dump truck to keep up with it and it would cost to much to dump the trash. If I had a place to dump the trash I would be able to do a lot more.

Well it's good to hear there are some guys trying to help out.  I know it would cost a fortune to dump all that trash.  It's a real dilemma when people leave so many appliances and furniture.  We were up there shooting black powder during a snow day and the area was pristine under 6" of snow.  Went back up there couple days ago & it looked like a war zone, after the snow was melted off.  One guy leaves a bunch of crap laying around, then everyone else seems to think, "why even try?"

[MikeWalking]

Well. too bad my Dad didn't raise everyone 

He and Grandpa were nuts about leaving no trace.  I come back from most every outing with a couple smaller bags of garbage that wasn't mine.

Nothing hacks me off quite like finding a great camp spot and finding a fire pit full of charred beer cans, (always cheap, cheap beer) green wood and broken glass.  Bottle caps all over

[wraithen]

As stated previously most dumps will work with you about dumping found trash. Especially if coordinated prior to showing up. Also, Ft. Lewis will accept everything recycleable no matter where it came from.

[wraithen]

Wait, C-post is a real place?!

[goober]

My duck hunting partner and I picked up another pile of trash at Nisqually Tuesday.
Spent Shells: These are trash.
Empty Beverage Cans: These are also trash.
Cigarette Butts: These are trash.
Candy Wrappers: These are trash too.
Cardboard Shotgun Shell Boxes: These are also trash.
To all of you selfish, self centered so called waterfowl hunters that leave the above in the woods or marsh - Extract Your Cranium from Your Rectum. You're ruining this sport for those of us that really care about it.

My next camouflage jacket purchase will be for the new Washington Duck Blind camo. It will have lots of brightly colored shotgun shells, Red Bull and Budweiser cans and Misc other forms of trash splashed all across it. This way I'll actually blend in with the surroundings.

If this thread is not you, please help out this sport, yourself and the rest of us that care by picking up this trash when you come across it please. I do this every time I hunt but sometimes feel like the Lone Ranger when doing so.

THANK YOU!

[norsepeak]

you should come over to the little Naches after the long weekends like memorial day, or after hunting season.  What a friggin mess.  For some reason folks think that leaving a heaping pile of trash 5 feet tall in the fire pit is "cleaning up".  95% of this mess comes from folks from.....oh never mind, the whiners will just get butt hurt and it'll turn into a big mess....again.

[MikeWalking]

you should come over to the little Naches after the long weekends like memorial day, or after hunting season.  What a friggin mess.  For some reason folks think that leaving a heaping pile of trash 5 feet tall in the fire pit is "cleaning up".  95% of this mess comes from folks from.....oh never mind, the whiners will just get butt hurt and it'll turn into a big mess....again.

Come on now, you know you want to say Seattle    Seattle people don't go camping...

[Skyvalhunter]

Would be interesting to take pictures of peoples camps and when they ask what you are doing just saying documenting for trash left behind. But that would probably just stir things up too.

[jeepguy]

yes or just post some signs about trash being left  that way theres no contact