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Why do people do this

Nutterbuster said:
Any trash picked up is a good thing. But I'm afraid big cleanup days just don't work as a whole solution. I've participated in them. The local riff-raff will throw beer cans out the day after you leave, and keep doing it w very day until the next clean up. I think for things to change we'd need a large body of people committed to picking up a little every time they see it, combined with big clean-up efforts and maybe some education.

The idea I have kinda started while fiahing with a buddy. We were trolling around fishing, and he casually ran by a Gatorade bottle and threw it in a bucket in his boat. He never stopped talking or set his rod down. I mentioned I usually ended up walking out of the squirrel woods with trash on my vest, and we got to talking about how if everyone with a sportsman's license did that every time they went out, there wouldn't be a beer can left in a few years.

Small acts have a cumulative effect. Nobody is dumping huge loads of trash once a year. Why clean it that way?
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Agreed! Think the idea of this w/ some sort of molle attachment would be great & just clip it to my pack scouting or turkey vest or anything...........
 
Wlog said:
The crazy thing to me is that guys even do this on private property. I live on a farm owned by my Father in law. He leases it out to a hunt club. I have permission to hunt it but I don’t feel right about hunting free where guys are paying $1,500 a piece and they have really dumb rules. Anyway, that’s a whole other story...
I find beer cans even here where you would think people would be bending over backwards to take care of the guys place who lets them hunt it. Crazy!
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Do you pick them up when you see them?
Bigterp said:
Agreed! Think the idea of this w/ some sort of molle attachment would be great & just clip it to my pack scouting or turkey vest or anything...........
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Yep. Doesn't have to be exclusive to saddle hunters. It's just that I think we could be the vector for change. The demographic that makes up the core of saddle hunting is very open to better ways of doing things. If we took all that energy and turned it towards something altruistic, I think we could make an impact and maybe kickstart the new normal.
 
Nutterbuster said:
Do you pick them up when you see them?

Yep. Doesn't have to be exclusive to saddle hunters. It's just that I think we could be the vector for change. The demographic that makes up the core of saddle hunting is very open to better ways of doing things. If we took all that energy and turned it towards something altruistic, I think we could make an impact and maybe kickstart the new normal.
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If I don’t I’m the same as the guy who threw it there.
 
Nutterbuster said:
Do you pick them up when you see them?

Yep. Doesn't have to be exclusive to saddle hunters. It's just that I think we could be the vector for change. The demographic that makes up the core of saddle hunting is very open to better ways of doing things. If we took all that energy and turned it towards something altruistic, I think we could make an impact and maybe kickstart the new normal.
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You're exactly right, it's eveywhere! They opened the beaches here in my home (central florida) this weekend and the trash cans were overflowing! I mean, you drug your big as* cooler down there-you see there's no room in the can-dump out that ice and take your trash with you! And then they look at you (with their entitled look) like you're an idiot when you call them on it. Sorry, vent over. Really like the dump pouch idea!
 
Nutterbuster said:
Do you pick them up when you see them?

Yep. Doesn't have to be exclusive to saddle hunters. It's just that I think we could be the vector for change. The demographic that makes up the core of saddle hunting is very open to better ways of doing things. If we took all that energy and turned it towards something altruistic, I think we could make an impact and maybe kickstart the new normal.
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Yeah , I’d like for this stuff to become the new normal. I grabbed a gallon oil jug at the parking spot & tossed it in the back of my truck this weekend (wife says why do you keep picking up that stuff) I just don’t like to see it while I’m out. Some of that stuff is new & gonna be there consistently, but some has been there for years & once it’s out it’s less likely to be replaced by more trash. Like you said if that’s habit for you & a buddy or two, then if that could multiply by even 5-10 times in your area. You could see a difference in a few years just with regular hunting/fishing/scouting trips..........
 
I don't think it needs to be big. Maybe 2 liters deployed, tops? Just enough to hold cans, bottles, candy wrappers, Copenhagen cans, and other common trash. You're not gonna wanna walk out with a huge thing on your belt. I think picking up 2 cans every time you go out is better than picking up 20 once and then not doing it again because it was kinda inconvenient.
 
DanO said:
That's a pretty big bag to fill and carry out! But the price is getting better. What's the consensus on size? I can start trying to source something a little smaller with a molle attachment method.
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Yeah 1/2 that size max, it could be super simple. If it was folded in 1/4 and rolled up tight w/an elastic cord at the top. You could just use one of your sm kydex j hooks & be good (maybe 12x 18” ish)
 
Heres an option, not mesh and maybe smaller than what you are looking for, also it has velcro so maybe not as good an option as I thought.
 
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That sure is a fancy pouch but tell me you didn’t spend the $45 that they are asking for that? That’s crazy talk...
 
Smokingbarrel270 said:
That sure is a fancy pouch but tell me you didn’t spend the $45 that they are asking for that? That’s crazy talk...
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I know, I get mil discount on all that junk but I hear you. Anything that’s “tacticool” the price doubles lol they have some flat colors on other sites for $30 or so but this things nice, can’t even tell it’s their until you open it. Not a great dump pouch for real military work though.


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I see it it a lot on public land but I have to think a lot of it isn't from hunters but more from people using those areas to do things that they'd rather not have family or the law to know about.

I go to trapper conventions and you cant hardly find trash unless a storm blows it out of the dumpsters. Hardly anything to pick up on clean up day.

Go to a fair and it looks like a landfill after it's over.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
I see it it a lot on public land but I have to think a lot of it isn't from hunters but more from people using those areas to do things that they'd rather not have family or the law to know about.

I go to trapper conventions and you cant hardly find trash unless a storm blows it out of the dumpsters. Hardly anything to pick up on clean up day.

Go to a fair and it looks like a landfill after it's over.
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This is true. But conventions are different. People will do things by themselves they wouldn't do in front I'd other folks.
 
I agree it does not need to be that big. But....it might be better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
 
Should there be a trash pick up thread where everyone can post what they pick up each time they go. Maybe it would encourage more hunters/fisherman to help out.

People on rivers are at an unfair disadvantage as everything that is littered seems to get washed up on the shoreline. It’s really overwhelming the amount of trash I see on the riverbanks where I hunt.
 
I want to whip the folks that fish on wheeler in the summer and leave all their crap... just want to ruin it for everyone else
 
gcr0003 said:
Should there be a trash pick up thread where everyone can post what they pick up each time they go. Maybe it would encourage more hunters/fisherman to help out.

People on rivers are at an unfair disadvantage as everything that is littered seems to get washed up on the shoreline. It’s really overwhelming the amount of trash I see on the riverbanks where I hunt.
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I like the idea of a thread and a social media hashtag.

And yeah, 80% of alabama's land mass drains through an 8 mile stretch right out my backdoor. It can be heartbreaking some days.
 
Something else that drives me insane is when people butcher their deer and dump the carcass in the public land parking lot. I don’t understand. I find dead deer in parking lots every year. Now if a non hunter goes by what do you think their first reaction is? They think someone shot a deer and left it.
 
Wlog said:
Something else that drives me insane is when people butcher their deer and dump the carcass in the public land parking lot. I don’t understand. I find dead deer in parking lots every year. Now if a non hunter goes by what do you think their first reaction is? They think someone shot a deer and left it.
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That’s another issue I’ve seen on wheeler this year. Butchering the deer at the gate/truck is one thing (I guess) but why can’t they drag it out of plain sight. Wheeler is a wildlife refuge in Alabama and I feel like stuff like this is just begging the government to ban hunting and fishing on it. There are roads all through wheeler that non hunters use to walk and ride. Out of respect I think you should leave the guts/carcass away from the road where other folks don’t have to see it.

I bet they do it because they are lazy, but if it’s to scare off other hunters or other folks looking to enjoy the refuge I think it will only have a negative effect.
 
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