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30-years ago I arrowed a nice buck from a tree stand. Passed all the way through. He bolted 25 or so yards, stood there, and I stuck him again. He took 3 or 4 steps (as I recall) and fell over. I never found the first arrow mostly becuase I took my eye off the spot to take a second shot. Time flies and 5-years ago my brother and I hunting pigs. This time with rifles. I'm re-telling the story of that archery buck way back when, I look down toward my feet, and there is that alumimun arros stuck in the ground right in front of me where it had been for 25-years! Only about 24" sticking out of the dirt that had been mud the day I shot it. Broadhead blades are all but gone, but the aluminum part of the broadhead was still there with the arrow and all 3 vanes. Amazed the vanes lasted that long!

besides fossils, the only really old stuff i found was a scraper made out of a fossilized toadstool and a small piece of rope pottery. both found in the river near my camp. i've found a lot of old coal mining and timbering stuff over the years. spikes, rails, hammer and pick heads, etc. most probably early 20th century.

I found a Remington 1100 on the back of the lot where I built my house. I guess somebody squirrel hunting and laid it down as the contractor found a pair of binoculars also. No wood left and I think the backhoe clearing the lot ran over it and bent the barrel about 30 degrees. Bolt rusted shut - probably loaded but who knows. It's hanging on the wall of my shop.

I did cover the rust with black Krylon.....

While looking for artifacts at a known campsite, I spotted a unusual looking stone in a spring near by. At first inspection I thought it maybe a fossilized vertebrae, but later a Professor at a local college declared it a cephalopod fossil. This piece is 4" high and 5" wide. The Prof said these creatures could have been several feet long.

Found this in Dixie Natl Forest. I was hunting for something take pictures of.

Not technically in the woods but in the wood. Cut up a bunch of firewood and while splitting it found a 8mm fmj that left a channel about 3 inches it what appeared to be a 4 inch sapling. 75 rings from the entrance

Found rusted shut 1873 Winchester Action. The barrel and stock were gone though.

I'm enjoying this thread. 25 year old lost arrows and dinosaurs bones, not to mention the lost guns.

Very cool. Once found a Buck folding knife. A budded out plant the illegal growers missed when harvesting. And a hard rock gold mine.

We’ll need a sister thread - What have you lost while hunting

When I was a teenager, while rabbit hunting, came upon a still, fire was still smouldering beneath it. We skeedaddled out of there, but took a flashlight and a machete with us.

Some good stuff and stories. Ive got a few things that i havent been able to ID. Ill try to get some pics up so erbody can take a look.

As for the thing weve lost thread.....man the embarrassment may be over whelming. Its pretty painfulto recall and I concluded that South Fork, Colorado swallowed something that i really liked. Ill just say it started with an Accu and ended with a mark.

Found some horse hobbles hanging near 10 feet up in a ponderosa pine. Person must have been riding a high horse, or walking atop deep snow when he hung them up. Don't know how old, but the end swaying in the breeze had worn about 90% of the way through the connecting chain. Leather was near petrified.

Morewood:

No. Really did find a nice heavy silver plated fork about 1/2 way up to timberline in Wyoming's Greys River drainage, and it still goes with the camp gear.