Do we need to get away from plastic ?

Tomahawker said:
The ubiquitous plastic sack hung up in the fence row is a bigger problem. I farmed 100 acres in the middle of a town of 10k people. The trash was biblical. Far and away plastic sacks and plastic bottles were the worst. Here’s the kicker, the plastics were all coming from the recycling totes set out at all the houses to be picked up. Folks invariably filled them to the brim and the next windy or stormy day just blows them straight down the road till a fence row or crop stubble is hit. If you have 2 hands you don’t need a sack for a candy bar and soda.
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I agree those plastic bags are a bigger problem but I’m talking about folks who love to get out and enjoy nature and then leave their hulls lay.

Pick yours up if you can, then pick up a few others you run across.
 
I like finding old hullls on the farm. I always wonder if it was my Dad or Grandpa. But these are few and far between. Go to a preserve every year after season closes and the amount of hulls is disturbing. I do shoot paper a couple times a year out of a 1905 Fox. The smell is everything
 
Tomahawker said:
The ubiquitous plastic sack hung up in the fence row is a bigger problem. I farmed 100 acres in the middle of a town of 10k people. The trash was biblical. Far and away plastic sacks and plastic bottles were the worst. Here’s the kicker, the plastics were all coming from the recycling totes set out at all the houses to be picked up. Folks invariably filled them to the brim and the next windy or stormy day just blows them straight down the road till a fence row or crop stubble is hit. If you have 2 hands you don’t need a sack for a candy bar and soda.
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I agree, I picked up nearly enough trash Sunday, I wouldn’t have room for a limit of pheasants in my vest. Speaking of bags, pieces of silage bags blow my mind when they hang on fences, generally large enough where I wonder how anyone let them blow away unnoticed.
 
I have hunted Sage Grouse in the same area for 40 years. I have seen a lot of old hulls probably from years past and they really have degraded a lot to the point they were barely noticeable. I don't think it takes 1000 years for these to degrade based on what I have seen personally. I always pick up what I find in the field, don't find many where I pheasant hunt personally.
 
I don't think the plastic hulls or wads are an issue. I have received older wads from gun shows, that have already became brittle and are disintegrating. I assume these have living by a window and have had a bunch of sunlight exposure. The hulls, I shoot the gray Win AAs with an autoloader and usually can't find them if I try. After burning off crp, once in a while, you will see a dab of melted plastic and the metal head. I THINK many shells have steel, not brass, heads now and that steel will not last long. It has been quite awhile ago now, but I used to shoot the maroon Federals, after a year outside, those hulls were already breaking-down and were hardly even pink. I seldom see the gray AA. I will usually pick-up any I do come across, more so if I have my 3 already.
Yah, in town the plastic shopping bags are an issue. I hope that any municipalities that offer recycling, have collection containers with lids. Even so, if the wind is blowing on "pick-up day" those bags will take flight when they are emptied into the truck. On real windy days and a few collection containers get blown over, then the entire town gets decorated.
 
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