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| <DavidP> |
I've found knives, compass, ammo pouch, logging chain, a poncho, shed deer horns, etc but the oddest item was something of my own that I didn't realize I lost. I was scouting an area that I'd taken a deer the year before at the very end of the archery season. After finding an old set of horns (8 point) I then found a bow release just like my own. After further investigation, I realized it was mine from the previous fall. Duh! I guess i dropped it while dragging out the bugger. Didn't even realize I lost it until then since that was the last time I was in the field with my bow. ------------------ | ||
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| <csj> |
I have found a few things but the most unusual was a nice pack frame that I found out elk hunting a couple of years back. I have to admit it has come in quite handy as mine was on its last leg. CJ | ||
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| <ovis> |
While deer hunting in N.E.North Carolina, one of the areas I hunted involved about a mile walk in to the stand along a railroad track. It was not unusual to find completely intact box turtle shells between the tracks. I guess they got between them and couldn't get out. In the same area, it was not unusual to find the odd arrowhead and spearpoint after a good rain. | ||
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You can take the top half of that turtle shell, glue some ceder to and make a decent turkey call. Cool looking also. Bill Mc | |||
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Old bottles, foundations of old, long deserted houses, and an old graveyard with markers dating back to the early 1800's. | |||
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I've found a lot of stuff, including binoculars, shovels, hats, gloves, a knife, jewelry, and a weather balloon. The most unusual though was a calf Kudu that had gotten entangled in some vines. We held it down and released it, hoping that lions in the area didn't come to the squealing thing. ------------------ | |||
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| <vibrasonic9> |
A ladder stand.  Actually it was right on my fence, within 15 feet and I could see no reason for the guy next to me (hunting 2600 acres) to be right on my food plot and corn feeder on my 15 acres........so I removed it for him. I reckon he got the message, he never put another one on the fence.While dove hunting the other day, another hunter in our group found some nice binoculars......Pentax I think the were. Someone probably lost them in a Nilgai chase across the field. ------------------ | ||
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Two complete sets of clothes (man's and woman's) and then the man and the woman. They weren't hunting. Bet it made an interesting story hiking back to the car without their clothes. Oh well you know how kids are. | |||
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| <X-Ring> |
Other hunters It's funny as heck when they find out your standing behind them too.It's really funny when they are where their not supposed to be. Man they get red in the face. My friends kid found some Swarski Binos this year lucky little bugger! X-Ring ------------------ If your living like there is no HELL, you better be right! | ||
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Gentlemen, It is always amazing what you find out in the woods. I have found old glass bottles, turned purple by the sun, a pair of tasco binoculars, a nice stainless steel camp stove, a Cat D-7 that had fell over the hill years ago, and a lot of marijuana patches. Since I work in the woods for my real job, I come across stuff all of the time... Joel Slate | |||
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be careful around those "grass" patches. The owners can get downright mean. | |||
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| <Mr.16 gauge> |
Let's see....I've found a knife, a release, half boxes of ammo, a life vest, a full tackle box (fishing tackle), decoys, duck calls, wool hats, a canoe paddle, & a sleeping bag (with a naked couple in it....if you think those marijuana patch guys get mad, you should have seen this guy! )The neatest "natural" thing I ever found were two intact skulls....just the skulls and no other parts of the skeletons. One is of a fox and the other of an opposum. They both sit on my mantel now. ------------------ | ||
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How about a human body, or parts thereof? Does that count? Didn't happen to me, thank God, but it seems every year around here some hunter stumbles across a skeleton, body, or "parts." Me, I'm content with the occasional shed and turtle shell. | |||
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| <Super 88> |
Found somebody's pager out in some pretty difficult terrain while elk hunting. I'm not sure that it was actually lost or just the result of someone coming to their senses!!! | ||
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A half bottle of old grandad and a rusty mod.94 win. I guess after half the bottle the trip home was hard enough without worring about the rifle? | |||
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I've found a couple of knives but while on a horse back trip along the banks of the Fraser river I noticed a skull and decided to go back for it. Turned out to be a big cougar skull. When I got back home my buddy and I measured it and to us it measured as tied for #1 for British Columbia. The B.C. record book was the only one that I had. I took it in and had it measured by a profesional and it was tied for #1 in B. C. and #3 in the world at the time. Number 2 was held by some guy named Theodore Roosevelt  470 Mbogo | |||
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(duplicate) [This message has been edited by John Frazer (edited 01-07-2002).] | |||
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My property adjoins a nice, big ranch that's fairly open with a lot of sagebrush. I was kicking along one day through the sagebrush looking for coyotes when a glint caught my eye between a couple of sage bushes... half an obsidian arrow point! Cool! Brad | |||
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Mostly beer cans full of bullet holes, which tees me off no end. One of the public WMAs I sometimes hunt is full of old abandoned farm buildings, which are kind of cool to peek into -- everything from crumbling 18th-century stone foundations, to a metal building from probably the 1950s. On another WMA I found what looked like a complete cat skeleton. Yesterday I found what looked like the cut-off sleeves of a red T-shirt, one of which had what looked like a mildewed dog dropping neatly placed on it. Looked like it was fairly recent, which is strange given the freezing weather we've had lately. Not sure I even want to know what the story was behind that. Agree about the marijuana patches. When I was a teenager some friends and I found a patch on another friend's parents' land in Cape Cod. We were standing on the road thinking about what to do when a guy came along on a motorcycle. He looked PO'ed and hit the throttle hard. We told the landowner about it, the cops staked it out and arrested two people. Another friend of mine got shot at by some growers in the National Forest. He no longer wears bright clothing while backpacking. Would really love to find a 10x Pentax or Swarovski binoc, though. Any leads would be appreciated. John [This message has been edited by John Frazer (edited 01-07-2002).] | |||
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I was hunting sheep in the Alaskan Range in the late '60s...we had been flown in several days before the season to set up camp and do some last minute scouting. The area was very remote and there wasn't any sigh of anyone camping etc...no old fires, nothing that would even hint at others ever having been around. On the last day of scouting I was coming back to camp following an old sheep trail I hadn't been on before and right in the middle of the trail was an old, old condum....how and why it got there I will never know except someone might have dropped it from a light plane after joining the "mile-high" club. | |||
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| <RobertJ> |
I have found many things out in the mountains, the most unusual was while elk hunting in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico. I came across the booster section from a large missile that was shot towards the White Sands Missile Range. It was about 12 ft long and 4ft in diameter. Sure am glad I wasn�t around when that thing came down. | ||
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Like Brad, I got lucky this deer season on my west Texas lease. I found a perfect arrowhead. The rancher says he believes it is probably Comanche.  Bob C. | |||
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| <Mike Dettorre> |
I am really lucky, I find the samething over and over. Complete relaxtion. ------------------ The sole purpose of a rifle is to please its owner | ||
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| <Sooner> |
I haven't been lucky enough to find any cool stuff, but I did find someones old 'still. Me and some buddies were canoeing down the Little river in SE Ok, when we started smelling this sweet, sweet smell. One of the older gentlemen noticed some barrells and tanks off the riverbank. He turned that canoe around and strongly suggested we do the same. I consider us very lucky that noone was guarding that thing, if there had been we would've probably been shot and buried. And from what I understand noone goes back into the deep timber land until its logged off. Sooner | ||
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Bob, that's a nice point. I have a small collection of points I've picked up over the years. My first one, a spear point, was found in an almost unbelievable way: I was walking down a dried stream bed when I came to the top of a large boulder. I jumped off the boulder, perhaps 4-5 feet down to the gravel below. There, between my feet, was the spear point! I caught my breath, reached down and picked it up. It was completely intact, and is one of two of my best points to this day! It's as if I was "meant" to find it. Brad | |||
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| <Iceman> |
While dall sheep hunting in northwestern British Columbia in 1999 my hunting partners and I came across an ancient person and his belongings frozen in a glacier. Known as "Kwaday Dan T'sinchi" or "long ago person found", at 550 years old it is the oldest preserved remains (actual flesh) ever found in North America. The story of the hunt/discovery was written in the Nov/Dec.2000 issue of Bugle magazine as well as numerous other magazines. Regards, Iceman | ||
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DB Bill, The condom could have fallen off a previous hunter's rifle barrel.... or maby it was a guided hunt.... I'll go with the mile high club...
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Iceman, That was quite a story! I could only imagine what it would be like to discover something like that. Secretly, I was hoping that the Ice man would turn out to be a white guy. Oh boy, would sh!t have hit the fan..... especially with land claims and all. Great story though, Daryl | |||
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| <jeremy w> |
Skeletal remains of a beaver and a water turtle sevral miles from the nearest trickle and about 30 from the nearest permanent body of water. A sheep bed at the very top of a rugged, coverless drainage, sunk in under a large boulder. With about 30 inches of acummulated sheep crap in it. Sheep must have been pretty smart as there was no way anything could get closer than 3 miles away without being in plain veiw of the sheep which could then jump over the top into another drainage impossible to get into. Or maybe it was just neat because it took me a whole day to get to it? | ||
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Daryl D There have been nine human skeletons found in North America that are older than 7,000 years. None are American Indian. All are European. Go figure.... Most recent mammoth bones found in North America: only 5,000 years old, Wrangell Island. Elephant type critters were here with "fairly" recent humans. Wonder if there were guided elephant hunts back then?? | |||
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quote: This is most interesting; it's the first time I've heard it. Do you have a reference where this can be researched? (I'm not doubting you; I'd just like to know more about it.) | |||
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LE270 Both are from PBS/Discovery Channel type programs. The first involved a controversy over an old skeleton found in the Pacific Northwest, which the local university was studying, and which the local Indian tribe claimed was theirs. The university had reconstructed the features of the dead person, and he came out looking remarkably like Jean Luc Picard. Anyway, the law is that anything that old is assumed to be Indian, and belongs to them, even though the evidence was practically absolute that the skeleton was from European ancestry. In passing, the program showed the sites where similar age skeletons had been found, and stated that all of them were distinctly European. The bit on the mammoths was another program... showed a spot with bones and tusks lying about on the ground. Apparently, mammoths survived for many thousands of years past their assumed extinction date, on Wrangell Island, fairly isolated. So... no reference for you. Sorry. | |||
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I have found old abandoned moonshine stills, an old concrete casket guard that floated down the river, old bottles, sheds, but the neatest thing I found was my first pocketwatch, about 3 years after losing it. I wound it up and it worked, but never kept time. Good luck and good shooting | |||
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In Alaska in 1974 a friend and I came across a Winchester Model 94 and some camping equipment. Since we were bear hunting, we were afraid we might find the gun's owner in pieces, but never located anyone. Maybe the bear carried him off, or the guy just forgot where he put his rifle. An NCIC check turned up nothing. | |||
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LE270, if you go to the Discovery channel website, they sell videos of their programs. Hopefully you can find what you are looking for. - Dan | |||
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| <reloaderman> |
While deer hunting, I was working my way along a ridge and stopped to admire the view, I guess someone else did the same thing and left me a nice pair of binoculars hanging on the tree I was leaning against! When fishing , I found a nice place to sit on the river bank and when I put down my bait can it fell over because of this really nice folding knife was under it!  ------------------ [This message has been edited by reloaderman (edited 01-09-2002).] | ||
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While scouting on my father's land, I came across a large pile of empty beer cans and an empty bottle of injectible animal medication. I can't remember the medicine's name, but I asked a local vet who said it was some sort of muscle relaxer for horses? He said this stuff would probably cause total loss of muscle control in humans. I found this stuff about 1000 yards from the nearest road down an old overgrown access trail. I don't even want to think what that's all about. | |||
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