This is one of my pet peeves. On our last hunt, the blind we had was almost immaculate. Kudos to the hunters that had that blind prior to us. We only found two empty shells and they were obviously ones missed because the previous hunters' gun threw them in oddball places and they just missed them. You're always going to have a couple you miss because of the way the guns throw the shells when they're ejected but leaving piles of them around is about a bogus as it gets. These idiots don't seem to realize that all it would take to lose our hunting privileges on our wildlife areas and refuges would be for some Sacramento or Washington D.C. big-wig to take a tour of one of the areas and see trash strewn all over, especially if it consists largely of expended shotgun shells. After all, how could anyone deny that the hunting community was responsible for trashing one of these areas if empty shotgun shells are a large percentage of the trash? After seeing such a display the political outsider would probably come to the conclusion that hunters don’t really care about the refuge and could start the process to have the area shut down to hunting. Far fetched you say…well, pay your money, take your chances, and is it worth that risk just to not have to carry out a couple of pounds of trash?
