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What unusual things have you found while hunting?

I use to do my woods running on the reservation at Ft. Hood and was always finding abandoned military gear ie Camo nets with supports , tarps occasionaly some bulk MRE's spools of expencive cable and other assorted gear.
 
A close friend found hunting on the High Desert of Eastern Oregon - he gave it to me.

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Most likely a German Jaeger muzzleloader rifle...in the early to middle 1800 time period prior to advent of cartridges. It has a working brass patch box.

My mind goes crazy trying to figure out whose rifle this is; why was it laying out here in the high desert of Eastern Oregon.

In the early 1800's people just didn't abandon or throw away parts like this (they're not like us). Had this rifle been broke...they would have repaired it or turned it into something else. So the only plausible reason it was left in the desert was it's owner either met his/her demise or it feel off a horse or wagon. No other reason I can think of...
 
I was fishing jigging spoons off the end of a boat ramp. I caught two wristwatches, a rod and reel, and a dipnet.
 
Quirt said:
A close friend found hunting on the High Desert of Eastern Oregon - he gave it to me.

gun2.jpg



gun3.jpg


Most likely a German Jaeger muzzleloader rifle...in the early to middle 1800 time period prior to advent of cartridges. It has a working brass patch box.

My mind goes crazy trying to figure out whose rifle this is; why was it laying out here in the high desert of Eastern Oregon.

In the early 1800's people just didn't abandon or throw away parts like this (they're not like us). Had this rifle been broke...they would have repaired it or turned it into something else. So the only plausible reason it was left in the desert was it's owner either met his/her demise or it feel off a horse or wagon. No other reason I can think of...
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old mtn man rifle
 
Was this note found with that gun?

"I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and kilt the bear that kilt me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerley, Hatchet Jack. "
 
Human bones
Old graves
Old beer cans that you needed a can opener for
Old medicine bottle
Arrow heads
Indian campsites
Old mine sites
Petroglyphs
Old cars and trucks
Tons of modern trash
I tend to spend a lot of time looking at the ground :D



Cool things I have heard about but haven’t seen
A local guys claims to have a silver bar that he found on the old mining road that serviced the stamp mines on the San Pedro.

Another friend knows of three different locations where over the years it looks like buried chests were dug up.

And there is one area here where it has been known to find Spanish gold coins after big rains.

A different area where you can find Mexican silver dollars that were scattered during a train robbery
 
A buddy of mine was on the Cherokee rez, and took a look in a small cave that he had to crawl into. Saw an almost perfectly preserved young man, obviously a refugee from the Trail of Tears.
 
Not actually hunting, but walking down the road. Looked up at a rock-wall(not a high wall, but the road is cut into a hill so the rock-wall marks the end of property just before the ledge drops down to where the road was cut in). Something caught my eye, lodged into a section of the wall. Climbed up and pulled out a small, old bottle. Dating of the design elements lead its identification as an 1870's medicine bottle.

Also found an old, rusty pickaxe head in a river. In the middle of pretty much nowhere, so it's possible it was there from the building of the nearby railroad tracks(long decommissioned into a hiking/biking trail).

My trusty TrueTemper axe. Just needed rehafting. Though in my hurry, I think I mounted the head upside down... Still works!
 
I did a bit of (unsuccessful) arrowhead hunting in RI a couple of weeks ago and found a 4WD transmission just sitting there alone in the woods.
 
When I was a kid, my cousin and I found an old grave headstone out in the middle of nowhere in south Louisiana that had a Captain's name on it and the cause of death was some disease, can't remember which. I believe it was dated early in the 1800's.
 
Have not been camping in awhile. But strangest thing I found was while backpacking as a kid in Colorado.

We hiked till dark, pitched tents, built fire, ate and went to bed. Just your typical night.

The morning after there was a beautiful sunrise... lo and behold outside our tent, near a tree stump, was a condom.
I wrote down in my journal that someone else must have found it a beautiful place also.
 
while hunting 4 lobsters in the fl keys ive found a couple of fishing rods and reels some of them still work a full steell dive tank a couple of weight belts, lobster nets. tickel sticks, one rusty dive knife, lots of anchors lost in shallow water . and other odds and ends the ocean is full of good stuff to stumble upon always lookin
 
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