strange and interesting things found while hiking/hunting

I hear the clink of distant bottles.
We drank them once and now they're gone,
Left behind when we moved on.

For old times sake,
I'll lift a brew
just one more time, to you.
 
The ones that stand out most to me are a bank envelope with $100 cash inside, gold bracelet, .22 auto pistol and when I came across what looked like deer bed in the middle of nowhere....... A large red dildo!
 
Back in the day...MULIPLE remnants of old stills ie; barrel hoops, copper tubing, assorted smashed gallon jugs and mason jars. Abandoned rabbit 'gums'
vintage 'A' and 'T-Model' fenders, cabs and chassis. Stone axes, spear points,
arrowheads. Revolutionary/Civil War graves and family plots (both marked and unmarked) metal buttons and "Indian marbles", plow shares, hardware from old tack, musket balls by the hand-fulls, slave tag (1) (much sought after by collectors) broken clay pipes and colonial crockery and Native American pottery shards, 1/3rd of a cannon ball silver coins, endless sharks teeth (Ashley/Cooper river).
 
Ok going on with the strange and intereting stuff found :)
I found a cockroach
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He was kinda pretty , for a roach .

we took a break on a road trip , rented a tent site for the night to use the shower and laundry , found this in the laundry , it was interesting
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While we were driving along one of the less ued roads of this country .. heading toward Tarcoola SA , I saw someting that didnt fit with the normal bush , so we went for a walk to see what it was , just seemed odd that after hundreds of km of nothing but scrub and bare land we find this little reminder of "civilisation"
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and this last one is about an hours drive northish of my home , these are wild , cleanskins , if you can catch them and brand em , theyre yours , if they arent caught , the govt ha a helicopter culling program where they are just shot and left to rot cos they are feral .. seems a shame , I walked up to about 4 meters away from the lead mare , she stood a while and just looked at me before she trotted away .
Free horses for the taking are alwasy interesting to me :)
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The one that stands out for me is the fresh, neatly severed Hereford cow head sitting perfectly upright on the ground at the edge of the woods where me and my friend hung out a lot as kids and teens. No sign of the rest of the cow. :confused:
 
On my most recent hiking trip, my wife and I hiked a trail through some local clay quarry's. A train used to service them but the tracks are long, long since gone. Now, the quarry's are just filled with water. They are right off of the Congaree River and Alligators have come up from the coast and settled in. Anyway, someone, long ago, laid two sections of track against and old Oak tree. The tree grew around the ends and lifted both sections up several feet off of the ground. There's also other signs of the RR here and there like old axles, other track sections, etc.

On another hike, we found an old WWII Jeep on a trail way up in the mountains. Apparently it broke down or got stuck and they just left it.

I am sure I've found other odd things, but I can't recall them all just now.
 
Myal said:
Ok going on with the strange and intereting stuff found :)
I found a cockroach
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He was kinda pretty , for a roach .
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That's gotta be the coolest looking cockroach I've ever seen! Coming from a guy who used to breed cockroaches.:barf:
 
How about a helicopter?!

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Mountain biker broke a hip down in the ravine. We chatted with the pilot a while while the others were attending to the patient.
 
We were digging through a monster abandoned beaver dam/lodge for seasoned and cleaned sticks to make walking sticks and found an intact 14' canoe. It must have washed down and the beav's just used it as building material. We had to come back with tools to get it out. It was packed in! I still have and use it.--KV
 
1. Full unopened bottle of Brass Monkey. Didn't risk opening it for a taste. Smelled awful though when we shot it for target practice.

2. A full box of nitrous oxide "whippets". No dispenser or balloons, though

3. A jar of calcium carbide pellets next to a lake. We assume someone had been using them for Blast Fishing and left them behind...

TedP
 
A stack of old metal plates
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Part of an old boiler and a crosscut

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Another cross cut and part of an old hand cranked forge
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What appear to be sets of bunk beds from an old bunkhouse
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Not necessarily strange.... but I have a collection of old horse and mule shoes I've picked up while hunting/hiking. It's usually a "good sign" that there's about to be meat in the freezer.
Interesting about the "red dildo"....... came upon a dried up waterhole once and there was a bag of pornographic magazines and a red rubber "plug" of some sort that had been thrown in when there was still water. Figured some person was freeing themselves of something....... who knows. Strange nonetheless.
 
GODSPEED! said:
and there was a bag of pornographic magazines and a red rubber "plug" of some sort that had been thrown in when there was still water. Figured some person was freeing themselves of something....... who knows. Strange nonetheless.
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Fire by friction:D
 
I've found mostly knives...

Buck 102, SAK Ranger, Leatherman Micra and some generic spyderco wannbe knife...
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I hear the clink of distant bottles.
We drank them once and now they're gone,
Left behind when we moved on.

For old times sake,
I'll lift a brew
just one more time, to you.
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If you are just reciting other peoples poems, than good on you...if these are all yours...well, its time for a book.
I would love to say I knew that guy once...just saying.
 
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