strange and interesting things found while hiking/hunting

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One of my favorite threads on another forum I frequent (canadian gun nutz) has a cool thread about strange or interesting things that people have found while out hiking or hunting in the woods.
I'll start things off.
- Lots and lots of deer sheds and a couple moose
- a magazine out of a browning t-bolt 22
- Old timer hunting knife with gut hook
- POS hunting/stabbing knife someone was fortunate to lose
- Lots of old glass bottles and canning jars. I leave most of them for the next guy
- Lots of old cars far away from any road ways. Places you couldn't get modern cars or trucks
- one arrowhead
- two very large dead mule deer bucks on two different occasions

I would like to hear what anybody else here has found and pics would be awesome too.
 
Im always looking for stuff. Have been since I was a kid wading in creeks. Ive found lots of Indian artifacts and fossils. A sunken aluminum boat. Caves
 
Found part of a wood burning stove in a creek bed once. It had rusted to pieces and I just found part of the door. I've also found lots of fossils. Oh, and there's the remains of an old house/cabin that I stumbled on. It's obviously not my own little secret, judging by the trash and fire remains that I've seen there, but still a cool little spot. Wish people would leave stuff like that alone and not trash it up.
 
My father and i were camping in a relatively isolated provincial park about 15 years ago and had an odd find. We went for a walk well off the marked trails as we climbed a small wooded hill my father looked down and saw a colored piece of paper, a $2 bill! Well scattered over a 20 or 30 foot area there were many other colored bits of paper. No wallet or anything else to be found just random currency hanging on some twigs and scattered on the ground. In all it added up to about $50 bucks!
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I found a raccoon skeleton that had the skeleton of another animal connect to it. I still can't figure it out to this day but It had what looked like the spinal column of a weasel with the skull of a tetrapod literally fused to the spine of the raccoon skeleton. I wanted to take it back with me but it was still decaying. I came back a few days later and it was gone. That is by far the weirdest thing I have ever seen while hiking.
 
Yeah I didn't have a camera on me and the camera on the phone I had at the time was like 1.3 MP so I didn't even bother taking a picture. The only thing I could think of is that one of the animals had become tangled up (the skeletons were caught in some rope) and died and the other animal had come to scavenge on it and had gotten caught up too but that doesn't explain how the skeletons were stuck together. They were by a lake in a tidal area so maybe the the tossing of the tide combined with the decaying tissue somehow intwined part of the skeletons. But I tried pulling them apart and couldn't. Weird stuff.
 
I really haven't found anything that comes to mind. The one exception would be 15 years ago, I was mountain biking through some woods. I was pretty deep into them, going down a ravin, to a stream and there sat a rusted out ? 1930's Plymouth, possibly. Anyway, I just about wreaked doing a double take, because it was so out of place and no idea how anyone could have gotten it there.

My cousin in Nebraska, just found a weather balloon and its mini computer while hunting in the woods.
 
Over the years I've found an amazing number of abandoned underwear, male & female.
And one full torso body cast.
Denis
 
As a kid in the NorthWest, I was hunting and found a Ruger 10-22 rifle stuck in a tree about 3 foot off the ground. Looks like it was placed in a y of the tree, left, and the tree had grown around it. The stock was long gone, and the whole thing was rusted close. Years later, doing a navigation course on a Mil. Base, my comrade and I found a M-16A2 leaned against a tree. We took it back and handed it in at the end of our course. Someone got crap duty for that one! One of the weirdest things I've ever come across in the woods was a single set of footprints in the snow, at the top of a ridge, and a used condom. I don't know why the fellow needed that safety "net" up there or what got him "locked and cocked", but I quickly left the area.
 
Either the gas cap or an oil cap off of a very old Ford vehicle.

At one spot I found around 30-40 very old glass jugs.

A hammer. Took it home with me. :)
 
Nothing really "strange" , only an adjustable wrench completely functional.

But when hiking in Mexico, I used to run into a lot of trash :thumbdn:, from used shotgun shells to old matresses; and this one time I found an electric drill with its extension cord and all.

Once I actually found a patio furniture chair, broken but on top of a tree:confused:
 
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It always surprises me as to where you can find golf balls. I mean over a mile from the road and very, very deep into the woods. Other than golf balls I have came across whitetail sheds and whole skeletons with antlers still intact. Also once found an ontario 18 inch machete stuck in the ground. Very rusted but is now sharpened in the back of my truck.
 
found an old 6lb pole maul this hunting season, very well used. i believe someone had a bad day when they found they lost it.
 
$40 stuck in the crack of a rock while boulder-hopping beside a river in New Zealand. I was two days into the bush and no one around for miles . . . .
 
On my most recent trip out I found what looked to be the entire contents of a gutted old house. There were tiles, light fixtures, old small kitchen appliances, pictures in broken frames, books, flatware, and a whole lot more. It was all in those huge 50gal contractor grade garbage bags. It was just amazing how far someone was willing to lug the stuff to dump it. On the up side, there was enough stuff in this collection that in a survival situation I could have found absolutely everything I needed even if I was somehow thrown into this location buck naked.
 
I used to wander around Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, which is on the northern edge of NYC. The park has different areas with different possible finds.

One area collects abandoned cars. The police seemed to be aware of this. :) But one day I went to an area I liked to stop off for lunch, quiet, deserted, clean. It had a short cliff overhanging one side and one day, there was a VW bus half off the cliff. Did not not stop for lunch. As I was leaving, I saw a very full backpack, partly open. Left quickly.

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When I lived in the East Bronx and worked nights, I used to bicycle up to Ferry Point Park at dawn. This is at the base of the Throgs Neck Bridge. Nice wide open area, along the East River. Used to see old Italians fishing for eels. The bottom was covered with horseshoe crabs.

One day, I got there very early and saw a car halfway into the River, tail end sticking out. No one around, no one I could see in the car. When a couple park workers showed up, I pointed it out to them, and they called the police, who were very careful opening the trunk. Fortunately, no bombs or bodies!

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My daughter grew up in NJ along a creek with a small waterfall. One summer day, the fall was so dry, we could walk across the top. We walked down the trail on the opposite side, and found train cars in the woods on an old rail siding. These cars were like the kind you see in old West movies, real antiques.

We went on down the trail and approached the abandoned railroad tracks there, when amazingly, we saw a train coming towards us! It almost looked like a circus train, and it turned out to be a special excursion trip celebrating the impending re-opening of the rail line.

Politicians, railroad execs, and their kids -- we all waved and cheered to each other, and the engineer blasted the horn, as they pulled in behind the town museum, which used to be a railroad station.
 
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