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A fork in the trail - so I took it. Also GPS unit, spotting scope and tripod, several knives and bottles, and a set of hobbles hanging near 12 ft off the ground on a tree limb. The chain was near paper thin from swinging in the breeze

Ruana Knife, leatherman

Yea, too bad the ministry of enviroment up in BC doesn't inspect and plug all the infected snatch and save a lot of medical bills.

Used matches and used rubbers

An M-60 tank and an F-4 Phantom.

An absolutely razor sharp older Rapala knife laying back in a cut bank. And an old, old, old hand made knife with a deer bone handle I found in a little cave I found by accident. There was a small fireplace or oven type thing built out of rock and red clay against one wall where there was a short crack above it that let the smoke out. From the scorch marks and smoke stains it must have been in use for quite a while. Pretty neat setup.

Peace and tranquility.
Total escape from that which is life.

While dove hunting with my BIL, found a woman who attempted suicide with alcohol and pills on a back dirt road. Called 911, and last we heard, she was gonna make it.

Found a nice broadhead while cutting up the backstraps of a 6 point I shot it was 1/2 in under the spine and had healed perfectely. Glad someone missed his shot.

haven't found anything interesting hunting, but i found a pocket pus sy while fishing. spotted it about 100 ft away. as i moved closer thought it might have been a di ldo. Was a little rough from the sand, but still in good working order

bleeps'll fake you out, fer sure....

I have found a Native American hide scraper in the Texas Hill Country.

In the Deep East Texas Piney Woods I found a Zebco 33 on a Zebco rod in the middle of the woods, no water within miles.

Years ago hunting east Of Wagon Mound NM, I was hunting PJ country, nothing but soil and shale so when a small red and white boulder was sitting there is was unusual and right with it was chips and a nice scraper about 4" wide and 6 inches long. Guess my ex's family have the scraper.

Found a shale arrowhead in the same general area. Not much, but bet it was easy and quick to make,

About 1985 or so in a remote patch of timber in SW Montana I tracked a bull elk right through an old hunting camp. There were pack and riding saddles still on log rails, bridles, paniers, lanterns and set-up tent poles. By the age and amount of weathering and porcupine chewing on the saddles and various other junk laying around I'd say it was from the 50's. It looked to me like the owners left camp one morning and never came back. I left everything as it was and continued on my way. To be honest, it all seemed a little "spooky" to me. I've looked for that camp several times since and can't find it.

I've also found two rifles, one a very nicely engraved custom 98 job with AAAA wood in .338 mag, and a fully loaded pack horse. Both rifles were hanging from tree staubs after being pulled out of saddle scabbards. Found the owners to all of those. Owner of the pack horse lost him in a blizzard. The horse roamed around the hills for 3 days never losing it's load. I came across the horse 10 or 12 miles from the trail head. Now there's a guy that knows how to pack a load. Maybe not so good at keeping track of horses though.

I haven't found anything worthwhile. I have lost stuff though.

Interesting thread.

Our country is not as vast and free of human penetration as some parts of yours but hunting in some regions makes you find strange things. Most of them are war "souvenir".

Twenty years ago while hunting with a friend in the southern french Alp, in a remote part of the mountain i saw a piece of metal emerging from earth. Digging with hunting knives we found it was a barrel, bent, rusted, but a barrel.

Digging more we came to an old Browning M2.50cal flexible mount gun. It was destroyed, a bit crushed. Sneaking around found some links with or without cartridges, rusted and mostly bent and what looked like a steel plate of flight armour vest some gunners used to wear.

To avoid long paper filling with administration we buried the whole thing again.

It seem we were on a return path for US bombers who came in and out from Italy in 1944 to bomb the southern coast and german bases.
May be one B17, B24 or B26 was hit by the flak. Coming back to its base the gunners thrown away weapons and weight they did'nt need to lighten the wounded bird. No sure but quite an explanation. For sure the M2 was an aircraft model, the one they used on the side port of the plane.

In some places i also found mortar rounds (fired but not exploded!) piece of equipment and all that come with them...Plus knives, gloves, lamps belonging to our time hunters.....

Dom

I've found that the mountains are a lot higher and steeper and the air's a lot thinner than they were 20 years ago.

A puppy...while stalking a logging road out in the middle of nowhere. I couldn't just leave him there. So I took him to camp and then home. I eventually found a home for him. I still miss that little guy....

Just right There garyb11s! And to everone !! some good people!

Just right There garyb11s! And to everone !! some good people!Kawi!!