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Fore me a rifle grown into a tree.Kawi

That's where I put it!

Nice try.

A Canon AE-1 camera. We were camped elk hunting at 11,000 ft in the boonies of the Colorado and had walked a ridge top critter trail about 6" deep in snow. Three or four days later, with snow melted, I walked the same trail and there is the camera. Brought it home, snapped the remaining pictures and had them developed. All that had been taken prior to mine came out perfect, mine didn't. Camera worked fine thereafter but like the other paper fed's it sits in a desk drawer.

Hunting the Limpopo are around Tuli once, climbed up a ridge with a client and from the top had him shoot an Eland Bull with a 30/378. He ejected the case and I stooped to pick it up without looking down and grabbed two cases at the same time...the second was a Martini Henry .577 case...probably more'n a hundred years laying there! The old and the ultra modern new!

Camping while grouse hunting north of Spokane WA on National Forest land. One side of the road closed to hunting, it's a military survival training area. We were on the open side of the road. Went to "take care of business" away from camp. Found a suitable tree to lean against. While busy, I looked over and saw what looked like a string or something hanging from a branch on the next tree over. Finished business, investigated string, which turned out to be paracord, old and mildewed. One end tied to a rock on the ground, line led up and thru a buckle, like from an old seat belt or pack, then to a little squirrel/rat sized wire noose! I'd found an old snare. Either one of the survival trainees didn't know which side of the road to be on or the training area was larger in the past. That thing must have been there long enough for the trigger to rot and the rock fell to the ground. It was so cool I had to keep it and it sits on my "patio" now.

Myself.

Lotsa arrowheads...

A GPS in Arizona...Had all kinds of elk hotspots on it...Tried to find the guy who lost it but he didn't have home on it.

Several knives over the years..

Yep, lots of dart points for me too. Coolest thing I ever found was at a place where a very old, abandoned for years, road crossed Boggy creek. The water was low and I spotted a hunk of something out of place half buried in the mud.

Turned out, after I cleaned it up some, to be a Navy Colt. Mostly rust and the stocks were rotted away as was the trigger and loading catch and most of the nipples. The hammer was cocked and the cylinder had four empty and two loaded.

Often wondered what story that old hunk of rust could tell.

Someone's pot plants.

Last year my son and I wandered across 10 teepee rings on a grassy ridge over loooking a creek in Montana. I often wonder what year it was and what thoughts were going through the men and women as the rolled those rocks off their teepee for the last time.


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Four me...nothing special. But I tried to grow a rifle into a tree. When I watered it all that ever happened was rust...

4 very old empty 44/45 cal casings on a hill in a bit of a depression. Often wondered if that person was shooting at game or defending his life. Various stone artifacts.

Several dead moose and a couple of poachers.

Found my ding dong, fished it out past my boxers, my long johns, my blue jeans, my bib overalls and my parka.

All stretched out like a wrung chicken neck, I
used it to pee on my left boot and a little on my knee.

Sheds, skulls, odd and ends of clothing, etc.
The most unusual thing was a rifle. Parked in one of my Montana elk hunting spots and noticed a black strap sticking out of the snow. It was attached to a .308 bolt action rifle, still loaded w/ five in the magazine and a nice Burris scope. Turned it in to the SO and, as luck would have it, the following year the sheriff let me take it home. Traded it for a 760 Remingtom, 30'06, with some custom work done to it.
My dedicated heavy cover elk rifle. E

Arrow heads, horse shoes, and my sanity.

A 105 mm dud a good 1/4 mile from West Point off limits, artillery impact zone (wrong charge)close to NYC! Also shot a buck that had stepped through the ring at the base of an artillery round, as a fawn, and his hoof had grown around it!

Found a microwave about 2 miles from the nearest road in some real rough country.

A dead Miget was my worst find.