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