StuC Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 Catch them and in the bin. Get's right on my wick when people leave them I've fired somewhere in the region of 2000 cartridges through my gun and I have no idea how far the ejectors will spit out a shell? Might check over the weekend, then pick the shells up and put them in the bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OvEr_KiLL Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 it is not hard for people with sxs and ou to take them out of the chamber and put them in the bins by hand!!!!!! but with semi autos you should pick them up, but i have yet to see anyone do it at my local sporting ground, maybe its because there are a lot of people waiting to shoot that stand and the markers want to get through them, i dont know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subsonicnat Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 I use a homemade magnet, I pick everybodys up, I do have an auto, but ejectors litter just the same, So I pick them ALL Up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 Less pump or auto users, your empties needent even hit the floor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aister Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 All my empties end up in the bin when shooting clays, even when using the auto. When hunting I do my utmost to pick up all the empties I can find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Poon Posted July 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 By the looks of it all when I started this thread last night it's definately good to see that the vast majority of shooters do pick there empties up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B B Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 I use a homemade magnet, I pick everybodys up, I do have an auto, but ejectors litter just the same, So I pick them ALL Up.. Thats a great idea, i may never loose another 10ga case again out that auto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garygreengrass Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 I always pick mine up, and others. It really frustrates me when they are just left lying around. Same goes for when I'm out in the field. I like to leave everything as I found it. Just with significantly less pigeons flying around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Unless using my auto I always catch them and put them in the bin. It's no harder than letting them go. With the auto I'll pick them up when I'm done. We had some posh fella ejecting his cartridges all over a little informal farm shoot that I visit now and again. He was a friend of one of the regulars and the farmer didn't know him. Anyway, to cut a long story short he was interested in my combi gun so once we'd packed up I distracted him by offering him a few shots and the land owner emptied his bins into the load bed of the guy's pickup and replaced the cover. Apparently the guy was rather miffed when he got home and had to dig his shotgun out from under a few thousand empty hulls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klatuveradanikto Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 As usual the minority spoil it for the majority, PICK THEM UP ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Let them fall on the floor of course. jezz, you'll be telling me to clean me gun as well next. mum tells me to be different to the rest... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 No one who does not pick up their cartridges will post under this title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Holt Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 mine always go in the bin, or if I'm in the field my pocket...there is no worse sight that empties lying about where they are ejected in the field.. tis the height of laziness :( the "shooter" that did this thought it was quite funny to leave the bush looking like a Christmas tree :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breastman Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 No one who does not pick up their cartridges will post under this title. 10 of them have been 'brave' enough to vote in the poll though! Is there a way to find out who they are and then BURN THEM!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 I only shoot semi-auto and pump, I always pick up my emptys and those of others. The worst offenders seem to be the top end berretta over and under users who think they are above picking them up. If theres a groupu of us shooting i leave it untill we are all finished and then pick up the emptys from both the semi`s and O/U`s, I just wish the next groups would bear with us 30seconds whilewe pick up any mess, inevitabley they are the ones who shoot and leave there emptys on the floor. Also whats this new thing folk seem to be doing where they are tipping the gun and breaking the gun to fire the emptys into the bin ? There muzzle awearness goes out of the window and they nearly always miss a few and never pick them up ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TbirdX Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Well I have a foot in both camps here...sort of. It depends on what the done thing is at the ground I'm shooting. On my regular shoot, I get to the stand, kick all the empty hulls out of the way, shoot my semi and they land wherever they land. If there is an interruption or no one behind me, I get the magnet out and pick them up. Mine and everyone elses, I find it quite therapeutic tbh, but if there is a queue I leave them to the guy who's employed to clean up. At other grounds I pick them up as I go, and usually everyone elses while I'm at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 We must have a few on here who trap and mark at shoots......So what says you, does your employer ask you to pick up the emptys or do they expect the punters to do so ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 At Bisley it expected that most people will pick their on up it accepted that one or 2 will be missed and the grounds man or coaches pick those up at closing or when we have time. But this more as we don't like the ground we use looking scruffy never been asked to do it, you just do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 At Bisley it expected that most people will pick their on up it accepted that one or 2 will be missed and the grounds man or coaches pick those up at closing or when we have time. But this more as we don't like the ground we use looking scruffy never been asked to do it, you just do. Thats what i expect most are and is why i pick all mine up and those of others in a bid to be helpfull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Catching empty cartridges as the barrels open was one of the first things taught to me as part of clay ground etiquette. Yesterday I watched a bloke who caught and binned the cartridges when he hit the clays but ejected onto the ground when he missed . So, he knew what was expected but threw a little tantrum when upset. What a tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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