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[Lorien]

Being a relatively diehard scrounger/scavenger, I often keep my eyes open for cool stuff just lying around. And so it happened one day in the middle of the woods, near an upturned tree that I found this sweet relic.

What kind of stuff have the rest of you found out there in the woods?

 

[mymindisamob]

I've always collected bones. I have some really cool stuff and my kids bring me things as well. My oldest son brought me a Dolphin jaw from Mexico.
I like finding fossil on the NW coast too. We found some very cool shell fossils a near Neah Bay. Sorry no pics though. But I have an old butchers cabinet in my living room that is dedicated to and almost full of found objects.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

good score...:thumbup:

i have found quite a few things in the woods... fishing lures, beanies, an old schrade knife, a SAK and a few nalgenes...just to name a few...

 

[pitdog]

Nice find bro, I'm always looking for stuff like that but so far have found nothing !!!

 

[RescueRiley]

I have a shed timber rattler skin that I found sitting ababdoned in the middle of an old logging road...

 

[Lorien]

the trick is to NOT look for it.

 

[blazink]

the trick is to NOT look for it.

I know, my wife and I have piles of rocks, driftwood, bones and other "treasure". My wife has a good eye for arrowheads and has found several decent ones and this spectacular Harahey knife (very cool, if you are in to flint tools check them out).

 

[oldman/Marty]

My wife once found a beautiful SAK that was laying in the bottom of a poorly made lean-to shelter that someone made on Little Square Pond in the Adirondacks. It had a Swiss Logo on the handle of a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland.
Oldman/Marty Simon

 

[hollowdweller]

I've found a knife before but it was a plastic handled Imperial. I found a girl scout knife once. I've found a tomahawk head and a few arrow heads. Also I've run onto a large number of pipes and hemostats at certain swimming holes and scenic vistas

 

[Dr. Mudd]

An inclination to look closely at my surroundings and an ability to see objects of interest led me eventually to major in anthropology/archeology once upon a time long ago. It was loads of fun, but you're unlikely to be able to make a living in that field. I still love to look at the ground (etc.) wherever I go, though. I've found lots of artifacts (stone tools, projectile points, and pot shards) over the decades, but nothing spectacular. Once after a hard rain I found an ancient campfire washed out of the sand on a beach beside a small stream that had led into a river long ago. There was charcoal, cracked and charred bones, and flint chips exposed by the rain that morning. I got a kick out of recovering that. Perhaps my best find, besides my wife, was a diamond solitaire ring I found at a gas station a long time ago. It's the only diamond I ever gave my wife, and when we had it appraised maybe 30 years ago it was worth a couple of grand back then. I thought "Hey, we can sell this thing!" She had other ideas of course.

 

[psy-ops]

While on a camping trip on the farthest western most point in Washington state, I went for a walk along the shore and found a whole dried whale skeleton. I just picked up a vertebre which was the size of a dinner plate and about 4-5 inches thick.

But I never really saw anything else.

 

[Myal]

I found a tiger snake skin once in a caravan park laundry
it ws still being used by the snake tho ...

found some ancient ruins :

and an iron age artifact :

and a stone knife that someone dropped a long time ago

 

[TemplarKnight21c]

The usual shotgun shells. Used to find deer skulls/bones in one swamp in particuar. Found an assault rifle magazine once. Not much else of interest.

 

[3wolves]

In the woods I found a rusty old POS machete (I never kept it), some deer antlers and some flint arrowheads. On the beach in summer, I find loads of stuff everytime I go. I found interesting stones, a rusted slippie that looks absolutely ancient, I polished it up and kept it for a long time before losing it, a bottle with a message that read "f*** you b****" :grumpy:, huge slabs of mother of pearl, cool shells, interesting peices of driftwood, some very strange brass beads (very old) and my favorite was an anchor from a ship (a smaller than usual one, probably from a yacht.) Sadly, I was 9 at the time and my parents never let me keep it. I also found an entire dead seal that looked like it had died very recently.

 

[mariobab]

I`m always looking for Common Buzzard feathers,used to fletch with them,now just for fun of finding one.I`ve found roe deer antler twice,skulls with cut off antlers left by poachers,cheap folding knife and pliers.Interesting stones I take home,plan to do something with,until my wife throw them.Then I bring some more.

 

[jh205]

Most interesting thing I've found at the beach was a piece of stone nicely sharpened on one edge. I'm pretty certain it would have been used by an Aboriginal person for opening shellfish at some stage. Worst thing to find at the beach or anywhere else are needles dropped by selfish drug using pricks.

 

[pict]

Shooting in a junkyard with my .22 I was scrounging for targets and overturned a barrel filled with wrapping paper. Out fell a little box with all the printing washed off. It fell heavy so I opened it to find a Wenger SAK, brand new. I still use it now 30 years later.

Once my brother and I stopped in a campsite and he found an axe stuck in a tree. Years later I was hiking with my daughter and was telling her the story as we walked in to check out an old campsite. Sure enough there was a hatchet there. I have since restored the hatchet. Mac