plastic ammo pollution?

I still have to find my sample, but this page has a picture and a write-up of them. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/07/26/potd-the-polymer-cased-264-usa/
This is a .264, but the case I have is similar.

FL-NC said:

When I hunt doves or ducks now, I bring along a bag to pick up my hulls. Its not that hard.

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I've only hunted ducks one time. The only lakes we have here are playas and one year last century they were all full as the ducks migrated. Ducks are extremely wary and you cannot sneak up on them on flat land I found out. I never fired a shot. When I hunted dove and quail. I hunted with a double barrel gun, side by side for several years, and then switched to an over/under and one year hunted with a single barrel because I wanted to. I wore a belt with three pouches on it. Birds went in two and empty hulls in the other. I have never left a shotgun shell laying in the field as I reloaded.

Our gun club has a ton of people that just leave their junk laying around. Plastic water bottles, soda cans and assorted other junk they use as targets instead of real targets on the target frames and at 90% of those that do staple up targets on the frames just leave them there. I've seen them so thick a 3/8" staple won't got through them to reach the backer board. The concrete slab on the rifle range is always littered with rimfire and steel hulls. I'm one of the few odd ducks that strips old target, picks up bottles and cans, and sweeps up around my bench when done shooting. I always leave the place a little cleaner than I find it and there are a few others that do the same. The one thing you can depend on is that all the centerfire brass will be picked up.

doubleh said:

Our gun club has a ton of people that just leave their junk laying around. Plastic water bottles, soda cans and assorted other junk they use as targets instead of real targets on the target frames and at 90% of those that do staple up targets on the frames just leave them there

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I've never been a member of a private club or range, but have encountered a few people that were. Most were like you. 2 were of the opinion that by paying membership dues, they were paying the payroll of the cleaning/maintenance/lawn care folks. I was pretty sure that wasn't in the agreement when they joined.

Whenever I'm out in the desert, I always bring home more than I left with.
Usually a load of spent cases. And the burnable trash gets burned.
The plastic and steel and junk gets tossed in the back of the truck for recycling or scrapping.

More than once I've been shooting in an area that I didn't know was closed and when the officers came over to ticket us, they saw what we were doing and let us off with just a warning.

It is so much more entertaining to shoot expired fruit, food and eggs. No muss no fuss and nothing to clean up.

(No muss no fuss and nothing to clean up.)

The bird, rabbit, lizard, mouse, and rat population probably appreciates you.

When you come up on a pile of trash consisting of spent cases PLUS the bottles, cans, cigarette butts, and so on- it means one of "us" did it. Sure, everyone loses some brass in the field. If you lost it, chances are, someone else won't find it. But the plastic shotgun hulls are ridiculous. They are big and usually in a bright color, so pick up your trash.

daniel craig said:

OK so I didn’t punctuate my sentence correctly when I said go back to I was just referring to cardboard shotgun shells. Obviously I know that steel casings were never really popular here nor was lead free ammo. I appreciate the correction. I shall endeavor to be a better grammarian in the future.

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No one is perfect, I sure ain't.
I don't know what your age or experience is and I want anyone new reading this to know you were a little wrong on some things so they don't repeat these mistakes.