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some of the same as above. cartridge cases, lots of mylar balloons (often you can see them reflecting the sun hundreds of yards away, I try to check them and see if there's a letter attached, maybe from some 3rd grade class 1500 miles away..... )

I'm surprised no one said arrows, (modern archery hunting arrows) I've got 5 or 6 lying around that I picked up over the years. Horseshoes, a few of those.

I've found a few places here in AZ where the ground is littered with pottery shards.

My father found a pair of 1800's era Field Glasses (like binoculars but earlier technology), he tried to restore them, but one objective lens is eroded pretty bad, I still have them.

One guy I hunt with found the radiosond part of a weather balloon once.

In another state decades ago, I found the military base ID card of a dependent kid, and a bone (probably deer) nearby, but the combination was spooky, I mailed the card back to the base just in case they had an open missing person investigation, never heard back, so it was probably just dropped on a hiking trip or something....

I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten about...

I drove past the US Creek turnoff a couple of hours ago. Lots of caribou hunters parked there but I didn't see anything in their sleds.

Found a bloody Buck 110 folder on a two track leading away from Saginaw Bay.

Nestled in some extinct sand dunes north of Wycamp Lake, Emmet County were a pile of Coleman fuel gallon cans, aluminum foil and a bunch of other debris. Found out later that it was a woodland drug lab. Not far from where some squatters had set up next to an artesian well at a state forest campground. LE evicted them when they became an attractive nuisance for local teenagers.

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I found the work of a shrike while chukar hunting in Idaho a few years ago.

While working my way into a narrow Missouri Break, I came across a horse skeleton. A snaffle bit was still in its mouth, no bridal leather, two rosettes and other bridal hardware. Saddle tree and stirrup wood and some hardware, 4 horseshoes. Corroded belt buckle. Fence staples and fencing pliers.

That would spook me some.

Many years ago there was a thread about things found in the woods. Someone posted about finding a tree in the middle of nowhere with naked barbie dolls tied into it in various creepy poses.

Following dots……
Until I can remember what I’ve found.

That might be a bit suspicious….it would make my alert go from yellow to Orange. 😬

Damn…

lvmiker;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the Thanksgiving weekend has been a good one for you all so far.

Thanks for the story, it twigged a memory that'd been misplaced somehow until I read it.

I was wondering off the usual trails we'd go on Carly the Appy one fall day when I saw the same thing - only one refrigerator or freezer though - that'd been buried and covered with brush. From on the tall horse I saw it, but wasn't sure I'd have seen it on the ground.

Anyways I assumed it was some of the local grow op guys storing weed as it wasn't legal back then - this would have been maybe '95 or so?

While I did have a 94 sitting comfortably under my left leg, I had no desire to get into any sort of social discussion with a grow op tender - if that's what it was - so I just nudged Carly into a lope and we left the area.

Again I don't know what was in it, but somebody had gone through a bunch of bother burying that thing that far back in the BC mountains.

Thanks for twigging the memory and all the best.

Dwayne

That would make a cool euro mount.

Recently.

No SAC was here engraving?

Boy it’s a dry sumbitch over there Sam

Sounds like renegade50 and slumlord chasing deer away from the neighbor's fenceline stand.

Jud, the country side is a little nervous.

Gettin' old here fellas.

remembered something cool I found a while back, hunting grouse in WA. Couldn't remember where the pics were, then forgot what it was altogether.

Just jogged my memory. It was near a Wilderness Survival School bordering a National Forest. Went to pinch a loaf, looked over at a tree while I was busy and saw a paracord coming down from a branch about 3' up in the air. Got my work done, went over and checked it out.

It was a dang snare set up, rock on one end, cord through a smooth buckle like from a pack or something so the line would run freely, and on the other end was a small wire snare, maybe big enough for a squirrel or such. I'll see if I can find the pics.