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I am not exactly an expert on what the aftermath of a lightening strike looks like....but I guess it is possible. I saw no obvious blown off branches or roots though. The only burn marks I could see looked like those from a regular fire on trunks, with no other damage.

Horse hobbles hanging about 12 ft off the ground in an old Ponderosa pine. They had been there for a long time as the leather was rock hard and middle link was worn down to about a 1 mm thickness from swaying back and forth in the wind. Either deep snow or a tall horse when then were placed there, as I had to use a stick to reach up and removed them from the limb.

Found the start of a moonshine still. I didn't stick around long.

Damn… any pics??

155mm Howitzer rounds.

THIS HAS TO BE THE CAMPFIRE PHOTO OF 2021!!

Certainly got my vote NV Hunter......

I didn't spit stuff out of my nose onto my key board over this...

I started laughing and fell out of my chair and on my ass, of the carpet....

Fantastic NV.... this is so simple its ingenious.

I lived in Manassas Virginia back in 1960 to 1963. Bull Run was about 1/2 mile from School... We use to go down there after school and exploring for just about anything..

We found a lot of things like MiniBalls, but it was not uncommon to find the remains of a rifle someone had dropped...

after a flood on Bull Run, when the water went down, it had washed off a sandbar of quit a bit of sand. we found the remains of a wagon wheel sticking out of the sand...
we were all military brats, so we ran home and got a trenching tool... about half a dozen us went back out there and digging, we found more stuff on that sandbar.

on kid told his mom, and she notified the Park Service.... they dug it up professionally of course...

They found the remains of some dead horses, human bodies and what had been a caisson and a cannon....

That was 1962, so it was probably left over from the Second Battle of Manassas or Bull Run as the Southern boys called it...

wasn't found hunting tho... so pardon the intrusion... but emplacements/ ramparts use to be in the woods all over the place back in the 50s and 60s in Northern VA.

Was hunting caribou with my wife in Alaska. Sitting on a hillside glassing, eating lunch. Got up to move along and she says, “you know we could be the only humans to have seen this place”. Not 20 yards down the ridge, there lay the sole off someone’s boot.

About 1975 I was out coyote hunting on the north side of the Columbia River inland about a mile or so. Walking over a grassy hump in the landscape, i looked down and spied a 50 cal empty with '42' stamped on the head. Of course the hunt was put on the back burner while I frantically looked for more. I was rewarded with the finding of a 50 cal projectile but no more shells.

Later i did some research and discovered that the area was used for gunnery practice during the war.
And of course, it's all posted now.

Maybe you were the only ones who saw that place and made it back to tell about it.

Mostly old logging stuff wheels and log carriage axles, the occasional ancient thermos or shine jar but i did find some .30 carbine brass and one 250-3000 case.

Creepiest thing I ever found was doing a bird survey in S. Texas. In dense brush I came across an old storage cellar or house remnant, basically a partially filled rectangular hole in the ground the proprietors were unaware of. This on land unoccupied since well before WWII, old enough the only traces were bits of barbed wire, shards of glass and pottery. The usual stuff.

Laying on the ground next to the hole was an old, corroded but quite ornate grinning demon mask made of galvanized sheet iron. The sorta thing that could be dismissed as artwork were it not for the undercurrent of witchcraft and devil-worship in Mexican culture.

I have found quite a bit of stuff and lost some also... off the top of my head I lost some cheap bushnell binos, elk bugle, old bushnell range finder... setting stuff down and walking away.

I've found some cool stuff, petroglyphs from indians and spanish explores, mining stuff, pottery shards, arrow heads...

Found these, at least a thousand years old in an old ruin, I often will just sit and look out from a ruin, imagining what those people saw from there, what their life could be like and the resources they had... what evidence they left on the ground.

Effigies...





I found this in the early 80s, overlooking a cliff.

In the early 90's, coon hunting by permit around a military camp, a buddy found a fully automatic M16 rifle leaning up against a tree. Dogs were treed and he said it was just right next to the tree they'd treed in. Had some rust. I told him to turn it in after he told me what he'd found. Can you imagine the reamin some youngster got for "losing" that Gov't property. Don't know if he turned it in or not but I said it would probably be jail if he was caught with it being Gov't property and class III.

The rest of that old boy was probably turned into bear schitt!!

Those are amazing! Any idea the stone type and hardness?

No, couldn't say if they were made in the area or trade ware. Lots of trade ware in central arizona from as far away as the the coast. I've seen huge seashell bracelets and necklaces. I've found travel lodges on long ridges, you can look and see how they would be trade routes from the rivers and valleys, over the mountains.

Kent

I found this in the dirt after it went through a deer yesterday afternoon. How the heck did Barnes put an X in the middle of the bullet?

Speaking of Indian stuff, I was prairie dog shooting in SW Wyoming once and saw a shattered pottery jug, all nicely incised with decorations and clearly Indian-made. It sat there exactly as somebody had dropped it who knows how long ago. Had probably been a water jug. I left it the same way. No camera along, darn it.