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No country for old men, but in Arizona?? Haha

Back in the mid 80s I was hunting quail on White Sands Missile Range and found a 50 caliber case, looked around and found another about 40-50 feet further, then another about the same distance on, etc. all in all about 15 cases or so. I could almost hear the fighter on it's training mission. Most were stuck in the caliche or filled with it. 1943 head stamps on all of them.

In thick brush at my old archery club, a DC9 wheel and tire, had Republic Airlines on it, had been there for years! Clubs about 7-8 miles from DTW metro airport.

Those ejection seats have a serial number. With some digging you may be able to find the aircraft type and even when it was used, etc.

I was rabbit hunting in about 1980 with my brothers a few hundred yards from the Big Black river between Jackson and Vicksburg and was waiting for a big Swamp rabbit to make his circle back to where the dogs jumped him. I happened to look down and found the head of shotgun shell in the middle of a huge cotton field about a mile square. The paper of the shell was all gone except for the base wad down in the brass case head. I still have it somewhere but I think it was a 12 gauge REM-UMC with a six or eight point star around the primer. A few years ago, I found it with a head stamp search and I think it was used around 1915-1920 or so. Made me wonder if it had been fired at another rabbit decades before.

BTW, I nailed the rabbit several minutes later as the dogs brought it back.

I used to find fresh elk kills all brushed in every now and again. I would cut out the ivories and leave em a note telling them where they can pick them up, and to bring beer!

In the 60’s I grew up in Smyrna, GA. 60‘s Smyrna as well as Cobb County back then was considered out in the boonies. Not so today. Squirrel, rabbit, quail & dove hunted the 400 acres of woods behind the house. Before I was old enough to hunt by myself we were playing in the creek catching crawfish, minnows, etc. About 5 of us kids came upon a rounded object in the creek on a rock bar half-buried. It was a US Civil War Mortar round from the Battle of Smyrna. The oldest and biggest kid claimed it and took it home. The explosive charge hole was completely cleaned out and empty. He used that mortar round as a bedroom door stop. It was big & heavy, much larger than a standard cannon round. Wish I had acquired it.

Found a buck 110. The rancher said no one had permission to be there.

Glad I started this thread, very cool stuff. 👍

Cool stuff Jud. I always pick up old cases to check the headstamp and to guess approximate age. A few cool ones I have found over the years, with a .243 case for size.

Some big stuff there!!👍👍

Oh yeah? Here's a true story..
I was looking for morels up near Camp Sherman on one of the tributaries and.. found a pile of dil-dos No.. for real. A pile of gottdim dil-dos.

My name's Dan and that sh*t really happened.

Wish I could find a '97 trench gun like that one!

lots of old brass. always enjoyed that, thinking of hunts and hunters of the past.

a few arrows.

once found a flip phone burned over, probably dropped out of a fire fighters pocket or pack.

Lightning strike, perhaps?

Hey Geno, if you ever find one of those old balloons out by Bly, don’t pick it up.

God damn, that’s some cool stuff!!!

My grandpa found a cannon ball way up on the Hoback Rim in Wyoming in the early 50’s. My family has hunted the same canyon since the 1920’s I’ve found a bunch of old 32 win spl cases from my great grandpa and grandpa.

Excellent finds to all, I found this bison skull a few years ago.

Bull Creek Arms.