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Some awesome stuff!!

I found a 25-35 case along a river where it is shallow and the deer cross there. About a mile away I know where there is an old loggers camp with the wood stove still there . I dont know how to post pics anymore since photobucket wont open for me.

The infamous mylar balloon, and NOT near Bly





What appears to be an old ranch antenna on the top of a knoll.

That’s an amazing find. If it’s harder than granite those pieces maybe pre CAtaclysm, 12000 years old or more.

Hunting Apache ridge just north of Sandpoint Id. with my cousin, we found a trappers cabin in the center of a grove of Cedar's.
half under ground with a six foot roof extension over the 2ftx3ft door.
inside was a pole frame bed along one side with the head of the bed next to the door. door swung open away from the bed and just cleared a small stove, allowing the trapper to grab fire wood from out under the roof extension. a crude cabinet on the wall completed the abode.
on the inside of the door were signatures starting from 1882 and ending around 1932.
one signature stood out from all the rest. Theodore Roosevelt 1888.

That last one has some definite Mexican/Mezoamerican looks to it. Pretty cool, no check that WAY cool.

The little amulets are great too.

Let us know when you find out why you like Zero, Hillbiotch, Pedo Joe, illegal aliens and commies.

Found a smoldering evergreen with a few small flames one AM after a night of thunderstorms, north of Delores a mile from Eagle Peak on a ridge line. Trunk was about 10 inches in diameter.

Calvary Army officers brass button in Central Texas as a kid.

B and L binocs in the fork of a pinion south of Cloudcroft.

An old large cal lead slug near an old crossing on the Pecos River.

Shot a big herd bull with my 270 Wby Mag, Bearclaw bullet, on a ridge east of Valleceto Res in Co which had a nearly healed but still slightly weeping bullet hole in about 10 inches high on its side and just behind the shoulder. Inside the scab and gristle and buried in a rib was a flattened 58 cal hp and hollow base lead ML bullet. Almost a perfect heart shot.
When cutting him up i found an old style long 2 blade broadhead buried in his spine just above the front end of the tenderloin. It had healed over.

Funny that all the trees in the south in low country I've seen hit by lightning just have a burn mark without bark down the tree.

Some of the evergreens I've seen hit on mountain ridges in NM and Co have generally appeared to have been blown up with dynomite and often have big 3-5 foot long and 8 inch thick pieces maybe blown 5- 10 or more yards away. Those flying pieces alone could kill a man near the tree it seems.

An early Frisbee 😊

Play hell on a dogs teeth, that's for sure.

Not hunting but I used to do a little gold dredging in my early 20s. We had struck a deal with a guy that owned a claim along a secondary creek in the Cariboo river drainage. Big history here this is where Billy Barker had passed through and over a summit and down in to what became Barkerville where many including him struck it rich in the mid 1800s.

Anyways the old guy that owned this claim and lived on it most of the year had always wondered about a steep canyon with a series of small water falls within his claim. It was mainly bed rock both sides, extremely rugged and he had no way of working right in the creek so decided to get us in there to scope it out for him on a shares deal. My partner , me and the claim owner spent a half a day walking the creek to decide if it was feasable. The canyon itself was really rugged ground and me being the young guy, I made it down to a couple of spots with pools along the creek where the older guys were good with watching me from a safer perch up top.

Basically I was looking for pools we could hopefully lower our little dredge and gear down with ropes and check for gold. At one spot I saw something strange in a tree. It was about 30 inch fir tree that split in to two stems about 3 feet off the ground. Something was sticking out of the tree about a foot below the split. It was metal! I went around to the other side of the tree and there's the other side of a miner's pick. The handle about completely rotted off but still visible and most of the steel imbedded in the tree. Obviously someone had leaned it against the fork many years ago and the tree had completely grown around it. I thought about getting an axe and chopping it out for a keep sake but thought again and left it right as it was. Maybe its still there nearly 40 years later?

I have found old indian abodes in the heads of canyons in the Delores/ Dove Creek country obviously made by the Anasazi.

Found a hole in the ground near the tip of a ridge ending just short of the narrow Sacremento River south of Cloudcroft. It had a small 1x 2 foot by 8 foot long opening out one side to the side of the ridge from the 8 ft diameter room.

Had a couple of names scratched in the boulder walls with dates from the 1880s if i remember correctly.

I expect the 4 lane expressway they built down past the old Circle Cross Ranch and Timberon community has destroyed any easy access having cut the tips off the ridges jutting into the narrow Sac river valley. I used to pull up a good ways into the side canyons to hunt and camp.

Buddy and I have been looking for a lost town and mining operation and a couple weeks ago found wagon parts including two axles and some linkages.

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I found a 25-35 case along a river where it is shallow and the deer cross there. About a mile away I know where there is an old loggers camp with the wood stove still there . I dont know how to post pics anymore since photobucket wont open for me.

Found a civil war era bayonet in a stump while hunting around Nokesville, VA some years ago. Socket mostly rusted away, blade still identifiable. Found a minie ball with teeth marks in it near a small building foundation in the same area. Thinking someone may have had to bite the bullet during surgery. Gave both to the landowner.

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A Canon AE-1 well out of Leadville Colorado just showing beneath the snow while elk hunting first season maybe 20 years ago. I pulled the film and had it developed and every picture taken were fine, a Leadville parade. The balance of the photos that I snapped were a fail. I still have the camera...

He probably never saw you…

Sat down on a rock near US Creek outside of Fairbanks to look for caribou.

I remember thinking “this is remote. I’ll bet I’m the first person to ever sit here.”

Then looked down and found two spent 30-06 cases in the dirt.

Still have one.