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Good camo..no kidding!

This little guy was south of Glasgow...close to Triple Cross Res......

Seen a few in the Pryors...in the desert, south of Billings...

Ingwe

Actually I was with my Dad hunting, it was November 1978, it was near Uxbridge, Ontario. He wanted me to go with him, maybe spend some extra time learning to shoot. My Dad liked the outdoors, hunting, fishing and he shared it with my Mom, myself and my brothers. Some of my fondest memories of time with him were in the outdoors. God rest his soul, I hope there is plenty of hunting and fishing in the beyond, I'd like to think he stills gets to do his favorite things.

Lynn

Nah, we did it right. But we ran out of it, and wished we had more, or burnt it more sparingly. The jar is still around today, fulls of nuts and bolts and odds and ends

ABSOPOLUTELY !!!!

Found a cave in the side of a cliff with a water fall coming out. Found several old homesteads in the way back country and a couple of graves. Found an old kerosene drop cook stove miles from anywhere. Found a couple of deer and three bears and shot them.

Guess I never found anything real strange.

Well...at any rate, its good that you did your civic duty...

and destroyed the contraband!!!


Ingwe

I normally find a lot of stuff outside of hunting season or when I cruised timber.

Lot of stuff people used to work the woods with. I've found a ton of those little tin pans that are half moon shaped that they used to stick on the side of longleaf pine trees for turpentine.

Found a Remington 700 leaned up against a tree that had been there a long time. I never could get the bolt open.

A metric ton of pocket knives that apparently people kill a squirrel or something and go to skin it and stick the knife in the tree and walk off and leave it.

Once in Katirina TX I was walking down a sendaro in the summer and a little 0.10" rain came up in the middle of a big draught. On the walk back after the rain I probably found 100 arrowheads in the same 200 yards I had just walked before it rained and didn't see any. Was barely even a rain.

You find a lot of homestead style stuff in the national forest here because it used to be cotton farms before the government bought it. Old jars, fence stuff, chimneys standing by themselves. That sort of stuff.

never found them down in the badlands, always found them in the short grass in about a 20 foot strip along the top of the badlands and not really anywhere else, though that may just have been where they were thickest.......we would walk slow, staring at the ground watching for movement and thats how we found them.....but it was one of those things where we knew they were there we just had to find them......wouldnt doubt ive damn near stepped on them in other places but they are hard to see unless your looking for them......have caught them from lil tiny hatchlings that could sit on your thumbnail to adults 4 or 5 inches long....

This guy was thumbnail size...thanks for confirming rattler!


Ingwe

I think that's my Buck.

decaying bigfoot,I thought they ate their dead?

Mostly those were Spanish Basques and Mexican sheepherders until more recent times. We had several carvings on quakies on our property by one of the most prolific--and talented sheepherder-carvers--in West Central Colorado. One of the carvings on our place was a very detailed nekkid woman about 2 1/2 feet tall on a very large quakie. Alas, the tree died and soon blew down in the early 80's. We tried to preserve the bark with the carving on it but it fell apart.

Those sheepherder "quakie art" carvings from the 40's-60's are fast disappearing in these parts as the short lifespan quakies die, and sheep ranching is a small fraction of what it used to be--I really hate to see that history lost.

My buddy and I were hunting near Gunnison when he found a very old M92 Winchester under a tree wrapped in some kind of oil soaked leather--it was in pretty poor shape. Found a pack saddle with the panniers full of gear--it was obvious that it had been sitting there for at least a few years. Found my pocket knife i lost in the middle of the forest 2 years before--it wasn't near a trail or anything--I didn't even recognize the area when I found the knife!


Casey

A couple years ago on some public ground in Wyoming on an antelope hunt, I found a Bushnell Laser Rangefinder. Blew the dust out pushed the button and it still worked. A bit bulkier than my dad's Leica, but gave nearly the same readings out to 800 yards. Guessing somebody was laid down in the little bowl, ranged a goat, shot, got excited and forgot to pick it up, then couldn't locate it afterwards.

if we're counting finding your own stuff.....I found my streamlight flashlight I lost during spring turkey season two years and a half years later during deer season....took a seat on the same ridge and sat on it. Changed batteries and it still works.

Found remains of several moonshine stills. old cars just out in the middle off nowhere. One Swiss Army knife while hunting at Ft. Bragg.

Mike

Found an old rock house in the mountains above Calico, had a pile of cans next to it and a bed frame, in some mountains North of Baker, way in the sticks we came across an area littered with
bras and panties, and suitcases, and what appeared to be six mounds. We called the Sheriff and he said that the wind must have blown the bras there (and put bullet holes in them) and the
mounds were probably from prospectors. Left there with a bad feeling. Another trip found us in the mountains of Northern Cal, and we found a burning camp fire, a sleeping bag and a
big red stain on the ground, which we deduced from the ketchup bottle next to it, was ketchup. Never did figure that one out either. In the mountains behind Paria Utah we found a Ford
Model T body half buried in the mud, and also some grave markers that were not on the map.

The coolest thing was a feral pigs tooth stuck in the stump of a large oak. Being Indian I've been taught this finding is a good omen and when worn or in my possession I am protected by positive spirits. I'll accept that and thus, always have it when I hunt.

Has to be found stuck in the tree, however. That is the magical find.

I found an old grave on top of a little hill in Alabama with my name on it.

Your whole name? That makes you stop and think for sure.

Found a pair if Zeiss binoculars in Colorado about 20 years ago. The ranch owner said nobody had said they had lost them, so keep em.
John