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Clean-up your mess!
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09/11/16 08:50 PM
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Slimpickin
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Driving down to fill feeders, I noticed the road ditches full of Corn sacks. We always pickup every piece of paper and strings from our sacks and make sure they are secured in the truck. If you just throw the sack in the truckbed, it's almost a guarantee they will blow out going down the road. Take a little extra time to secure your load so some local community member is not picking up your trash!
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/11/16 09:01 PM
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I agree it irritates me to see corn sacks along the road!
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/11/16 09:32 PM
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Hunters can be messy crowd, and the mass of laziness and lack of responsibility by some of my fellow hunters ticks me off. Corn bags on the road is just part of it. A few times a year we see Hefty trash bags full of guts dumped on the side of the road in front of our place, you know that didn't "accidentally" fly out. Not to mention the increase in beer bottles during deer season, and full bags of lease trash that are too heavy to just fly out, they had to be thrown from a truck. After 12 years of cleaning every piece of trash from 5000 acres, including the road frontage, I think it is safe to say that hunters are responsible for a large part of the mess. We had a leaser that had a pile of beer bottles, cans, and misc trash from snacks outside of his deer blind. He was asked many times to clean it up. He finally left the lease and his trash.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/11/16 09:58 PM
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Texas Dan
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Just another signal to the non-hunting majority who live in the country that deer season is almost here.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/11/16 10:06 PM
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last time i dove hunted public land i picked up way over a hundred shotshell hulls that pinheads had left along with water bottles, wrappers, etc.
lotsa pinheads around to ruin it for the rest of the hunters
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6447926
09/11/16 10:28 PM
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It was everyone responsibility to clean up around camp before leaving, whether only one or the whole crew showed up. Trash got dumped off at home. Deer cleanings left at camp in the woods. Irresponsible hunters tick me off, we are all adults not kids. Just BS to do trash like that.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/12/16 12:00 AM
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Texas Dan
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IMO, another behavior that shows disrespect for landowners is unnecessary shooting. If you want to sling a lot of lead, do it at a practice range.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6448188
09/12/16 01:39 AM
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tholloway
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2nd all the above, witness too much of the above, no wonder land owners who partake in leasing land to TPWD, want to sell our public land, IDIOTS trash their property. witness too much of the above on public land.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/12/16 02:01 AM
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This stuff sickens me as well. Starts at home. My boys know they pick up their shells and never leave a single piece of trash anywhere. Its automatic with our family. Most of this comes from 4 wheelers and ATVers but its the same sickening ridiculous crap.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6448223
09/12/16 02:08 AM
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Wilhunt
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Those who don't take care of trash don't stay on our lease.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
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09/12/16 03:19 AM
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C.K.
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Those who don't take care of trash don't stay on our lease.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
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09/12/16 03:43 AM
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Deerhunter61
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Those who don't take care of trash don't stay on our lease.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
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09/12/16 01:07 PM
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Trash is trash Some of it's left where it doesn't belong, the rest of it left it there! Trash has no limits....be it hunters, campers, or fisherman. Corn sacks in the road, cans in the fire pit, or old fishing line & bait boxes floating in the water or left on the bank.
HnF
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
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09/12/16 02:07 PM
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Recently looked at a property on the Guadalupe river in Kerrville. The lady who owned it says people always asked her if they could fish and she used to let them but she said the "fishermen" always left a bunch of trash laying around so she stopped.
I also see the corn sacks littering the road sides, and the rest areas we pass too/from the ranch are always stacked high with trash from hunters. I wish it were true that outdoorsmen were good clean living people, but its simply not true there are just as many slobs among us as anywhere else.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
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#6448545
09/12/16 02:16 PM
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Wacm
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One time I was hunting Granger WMA and was running late to a date. I was pulled over doing nearly 100 mph. The officer questioned me about a game bag full of various beer cans. When I told him I picked them up as I was hunting he let me go and told me to slow it down..that was awesome. The woods are like a church. We would never litter our church. Especially when we know God is there.
Last edited by Wacm; 09/12/16 02:17 PM.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6448552
09/12/16 02:21 PM
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White Falcon
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Trash in, trash out! Plus some.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6448566
09/12/16 02:32 PM
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titan2232
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All the rest stops along I-10 should definitely have larger trash cans since they are almost always overflowing with empty sacks. I get about 30 bags in to three bags and strap them down until I get home. I've had a few bags fly out over the years
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6448926
09/12/16 06:58 PM
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I can always tell when its getting close to deer season, corn sacks, fast food trash (from establishments not in our area) and beer cans or bottles thrown out all down the county road. And people wonder why I tell them no I am not interested in leasing my properties as I am out in the front fenceline cleaning up the trash.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6449010
09/12/16 08:00 PM
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KnoxCityNate
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Very annoying, I make it a point to toss them in a tote until I get home
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Slimpickin]
#6449060
09/12/16 08:28 PM
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CRAnderson52
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We always just burn ours. Quick and easy.
You can run but you can't hide...
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
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#6449149
09/12/16 09:10 PM
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yep, haul out what you hauled in ... corn sacks go back to the feed store to be refilled (Brown Feed in Lampasas allows 10 cents a bag if they can be used again).
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Wacm]
#6449441
09/13/16 12:00 AM
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fritz423
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One time I was hunting Granger WMA and was running late to a date. I was pulled over doing nearly 100 mph. The officer questioned me about a game bag full of various beer cans. When I told him I picked them up as I was hunting he let me go and told me to slow it down..that was awesome. The woods are like a church. We would never litter our church. Especially when we know God is there. I get the same feeling. God does NOT want us to throw our trash out in his back yard.
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: titan2232]
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09/13/16 12:12 AM
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All the rest stops along I-10 should definitely have larger trash cans since they are almost always overflowing with empty sacks. I get about 30 bags in to three bags and strap them down until I get home. I've had a few bags fly out over the years You got it right, Rest Stops, and that is what those trash cans are for. Not for all of the leasers to dump off ranch trash on the way home. They are for travelers to use. I have seen bags stacked ten deep at rest stops with crap blowing everywhere from coons getting to it. It blows me away that people will leave trash there when there are already 100 bags falling out into the driveway. People need to take their trash home.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Clean-up your mess!
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6449589
09/13/16 01:27 AM
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crumrw
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IMO, another behavior that shows disrespect for landowners is unnecessary shooting. If you want to sling a lot of lead, do it at a practice range. I don't mind neighbors target practicing. It's their land, there business, though it can be aggrivating at times especially when I'm sitting in the stand. In my case, my neighbor has a few kids and I think it's great that they're getting outside and getting an education in firearms. Also, I know the deer are gonna hang out on my property if it's a war zone over there.
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