Unusual things you have found while hunting and fishing

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panch0

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I have heard alot of different things being found while hunting here in South Texas. Personally I have found a couple arrow heads hunting north of Laredo. I went fishing at this small lake and found 5 pick up trucks all stripped bare. It was a grave yard for stolen vehicles or something. I dont have any pics since this happened before there were cameras on cell phones. What have you found while in the outdoors?
 
Shallow graves on the King........... I never asked but it was a great place to hunt.
 
Found an old saddle about two miles from the nearest road.
Only thing left was the tree and a few shards of leather, but being young and exuberent I packed it home and hung it on the fence anyways.
Boy did allot of possible scenarios on how it got there go through my mind on the way back to the truck.

Also found a pair of binoculars.
PS,,, Bushnell binos are NOT weather proof over several years time.
Course they were buried in snow for about half of that time so I guess that's to be expected. :D
 
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One night I drove out to a lonely spot in the middle of the SoCal desert to hunt doves the next morning. I was in a very secluded spot that appeared not to have been used for quite some time. When I got out of my truck I stepped and the sand under my foot sunk about a foot into the ground.:eek: When I lifted my foot, the ground came back up with it.:confused:
I dug around and found a piece of foam rubber roughly one foot square was buried in the exact spot I had chosen to step out of my truck. How long it had been there I don't know. There were no tracks around it and it was quite isolated.
 
I found a wrought iron wagon wheel that is about 3" wide and 5/16" thick. Around the same spot I found some old whiskey bottles and a beer bottle from 1921. Unfortunately they were all empty. Loved that area, it was only a half hour from Milwaukee.
 
40+ yrs ago in rural north Texas on a tributary creek of the Brazos River. Found what was left of an old single shot shotgun grown into the fork of an oak tree. All the wood was gone/rotten and we couldnt budge what was left of the gun. We finally figured that it probably was an illegal deer snare/gun that that someone had put up and forgot or couldn't find again. It would have taken a chain saw to get the barrel and action loose. I guess it's still there.--KV
 
I have a metal detector , so I have found lots of neat stuff in the woods. Old coins, black powder balls, mini balls... and my favorite , a Union hat pin shaped like a bugle , and fully intact.
 
One of the strangest things I've came upon in the woods was what appeared to me to be a grave marker. It was on National Forrest in an area that had been a farm at one time. The only remaining signs of the farm were a few locust fence posts that were still standing and this:
 
Many years ago a co worker of mine went back packing. It got dark so she went off the main trail a little ways in a small valley to set up for the night. When she woke up the next morning she discovered that she was in a pot field. She packed up as fast as she could and got out of there.

Ric
 
Some friends of mine were riding ATVs in south Mississippi at night and ran up on a clandestine landing strip in the woods. It was marked with flashlights on poles that were stuck up through holes cut in plastic bowls (so the light would only go up and not out to the sides). They realized what they ran into, saw 3 or 4 vehicles at the far end of the strip from moonlight on the windshields, and hauled ass.
 
I found a small knife in a stream trout fishing once, it was in pretty rough shape. I brought it home but not sure where its at now...
 
I was hunting on a Army base in CA back in the 90's and while walking up a dry creek bed I noticed some pretty flowers growing and then a little further up some marijuana plants. I then realized that the flowers were poppies. I looked for red dots on my and beat feet out of there.

Clark
 
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