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Twenty plus years ago hunting in the national forest in southwest Missouri I came across several fish hooks hanging from tree branches. They were about five and half feet above the ground. I figured someone was growing weed in the area.

With the intent of snaggin somebody?? bastards

I always thought this rotted out but still standing tree was pretty cool



People grow weed indoors here. Thought there are still plenty of fishhooks in trees from careless casts.

A bird got caught on the fish hooks and they broke off there.?
I have found loggers tools , an old steel arrow head in a tree. More junk than anything and lately those birthday balloons. I found a weather balloon in northwest wisconsin that came from Kansas once with a note saying to send it back if found, postage was paid.

If it was an area flooded during heavy rains, might have been "bush hooks" for catching fish. River over flows the banks, fish move out and prowl for food.

I have set and tended many a bush hook and trot lines way down in the Altamaha River Swamps in Coastal Georgia.

Using a pirogue so I could paddle or pole through the Cypress trees and Cypress knees.

rubber dick wrapped in saran wrap. it was kind of close to the road so maybe it was a drive by.

I heard of guys that catch coyotes with fishhooks on wire like this. Place chicken on hook, hang hook with wire 5-6 feet off ground. Coyotes jump to grab chicken and impale on hooks with their own weight falling.

Not very humane but nonetheless I’ve heard about it.....in very urban areas as well.

Hand dug well lined with native rock. This is on property I've owned since 1998 and I had never found this one until last November. There is another hand dug, rock lined well across the creek from this one and it still has water in it. The one in the photo is only about 4-5' deep, it is very close to the creek and I expect it silted in during a flood. When I first bought the property, I found remnants of a cellar dug into the edge of the creek.......there were parts of a door and frame and you could see part of the entrance. Those remnants are pretty much gone now due to erosion.





There is an old cemetery about 400 yards from this well, it is just across the fence on neighboring property. I found it while I was out coyote hunting......there is only one "modern" headstone, dated 1911, the other headstones are just native rocks. After I found it, I told the property owner about it........she had never seen it and had no idea it was there even though she has owned the property for decades and had probably driven by it dozens of times.

Funniest Thing I ever read on here in a similar thread of finding stuff in the woods was someone on here posted they found a Mossberg 930 (?) auto shotgun wrapped around a tree!

All kinds of critter skulls.

I have discovered to never go into the woods without a roll of TP.

The metal ring, tread, cap, whatever....for a wagon wheel. The wood long gone! memtb

About 35 years ago I was deer hunting on public land in upstate New York. I veered about half a mile off a main trail to see what I could see and I came across a very large tree that had an old man's face carved into it. The shear size of the carving and the detail was astounding. Whoever carved that had to spend many days or weeks doing it and why they did it in a place that nobody would see it remains a mystery. The chances of coming across that tree by accident was remote.

Couple of months back I was small game hunting in the NF and found an inexpensive Coast pocket knife buried in a pile of pine needles.. Cleaned up nice and even took a reasonable edge.

On one of our pre-teen adventures, my brothers and I went down the railroad tracks from my grandparents house to a bridge where we'd shoot pigeons. We spotted something on the bank of the creek and took it back to show grandma.

She yelled out to my Grandfather after seeing it. He came out and started laughing.

My uncle explained it to us later......a pocket pussy.

The wood probably never was there. Wagon wheels used to throw those rims all the time. They would come off and roll into the weeds and the driver might not realize it was gone until he got where he was going.

The most surprising thing I’ve come across in 40 sum years hunting was a memorial made of a bronzed plaque with the full name of a husband and wife including their hunting “handle” or nik-name.

The plaque was placed, per the inscription, on the stand where the husband and wife sat every elk season watching over a massive clear cut...When I found the plaque, the clear cut was gone, long since unhuntable due to growth. The dates on on the plaque were 1978 and 1982 if I remember correctly. I assume the husband past away 4 years after his wife.

It was obvious from the memorial plaque being bronzed and professionally made that the hunting party they belonged to loved these two hunters very much. 😎

I’ve heard of hanging hooks baited with meat to catch coyotes. Were they treble hooks? That’s what they used for coyotes.

I found a metal box with IH in it, full of old wrenches, cow bells, a tool with a spring that splits apart, one of the Waller boys said it goes in a cows nose to control them. I found an axe head, an old tractor seat, and old car parts.

came across a cave in the hill country just west of campwood tx. with piles of bones from lion kills and a vertebra fossil in the wall about 30ft long.

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