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Fishing from a canoe, we found a Winchester model 12 that was rusted shut on the bottom of the river.

Back in the late 1970s, I found a Ski-Doo Elan snowmachine that had been run off a cliff in a remote area near Sawyer Pond in the White Mountain NF. I gave the registration # and location to the USFS office in Conway and never went back to see if it had been recovered.

In the early 1980s, I found a Honda CL-450 in the Republican River bottom-ground at Camp Whiteside ROTC Summer Camp area on Ft. Riley. I gave the description and location to the MPs, but never went back to see if it had been recovered.

Jeff

Back in the 80's, we were pheasant hunting the Teton river breaks north of GF Montana (bootlegger trail)and my dad went into some bush to retrieve a bird and came out with a rooster and a cannonball that is slightly larger than a softball. Must've been from calvary operations at Fort Benton which is maybe 20 or 30 miles east of the area we were hunting.
Another find I was told about... my brother's father-in-law lost a pair of binos while sheep hunting in the Bob Marshall wilderness past Augusta, Mt. Many years later he became friends with a fella, and their families became close. On a joint family hunt, one of the children of the friend handed a pair of binos to my brother's FIL. FIL's name was etched into the binos.
Apparently the befriended guy had been in the area just after they were lost high on a shale slide where the FIL either left them or dropped them. They were given back to the FIL and he was happy.

on a long hike trip a few years ago i found a pair of swaro compacts in the soft case with the bino's still in the original plastic. i was at least a mile from any trail and about 7 miles from the nearest road.

very cool about the bino find.... and thought I'd confess to watching your avatar to see if anything else would happen...
Best-Mike

Found a Civil War era bayonet in a stump near Nokesville, VA. Blade was in OK shape, socket was a mess. Gave it to a collector friend who owned the property.

Everything seems small in comparison to my find. I was hunting by myself, as I usually do, and found a perfectly good 2004 Ford F-350 4X4 truck with the keys still in the ignition. I have had it for several months now, the problem with it is it needs new tires. Any reccomendations?

"I have had it for several months now, the problem with it is it needs new tires. Any reccomendations?"


Call the owner. Maybe he's got extras that he no longer has use for

You tried to find the owner right ?

Yeah even, your right, we was recruited, and as recruits how do you say no ??????

Yep, family, a wayward Uncle, two brothers and a couple of seedy cousins. We didn't tell my Mother or Father, they would have made us give it up to someone, like the police, or something stupid like that

Once while in the 1980's I was duck hunting tidal marshes on the New Jersy coast and I saw at my feet several 50 caliber bullets that had been fired with the lands and grooves etched in and within 20 feet as the tide went down I found 3 bomblets about 12 to 14 inches long with the fins on one end and the rounded end that looked like the top of a bowling pin on the other. I was so amazed I picked them up and stacked them together near where my seat was and then had a WTF moment and realized that there was no way to figure out if they were inert or not. I walked about 50 yards away and stayed away. There is a lot of unexploded ordnance on the coast still. Just last winter they did a beach reclamation project and a lot of WWI era munitions ended up on the beach and the army spent a fortune clearing the beaches.

Lots of stuff. Hunting fish ( bowfishing) I have found backpacks, and a half dozen purses in the creek, several bison skulls, mastadon teeth, and two guns. One was a 45 Auto loaded but useless. Four years later I found a single barrel shotgun with barrel chopped to 12 inches.
Both guns were on the same side of the bridge. Several knives, tools and whatnot. When a kid, I ran into a broken-into safe. Turns out it was from a regional county club burglarized a few months before.

Couple pocket knifes and a hatchet.

A camo Denim shirt, Has been my favorite shirt when huntin since then.

Also a guy in I'm guessing his mid to late 60's. Who shot himself in the face with a 30-30.

Bob testing his special pig pee...

Found a well one time! Luckily not the hard way, but was close.

Mike

I'd say but the statute of limitations hasn't fully run yet.

I found a roll of det chord once. It had rolled off a truck on the way to a remote mine that my neighbor owned. I gave it to him and you should have seen his eyes light up.

Other than that, it's just a knife or saw here and there.

Hidden wells are a real danger in New England. I've seen old wells that could easily swallow a man, woman, or child without a trace, often not anywhere near there was any suggestion of an old foundation.

Jeff

oops almost forgot, I was more thinking of things you could keep, but others stories jogged my memory. specially the well

was bird hunting outside of Minto one time and came upon a game pit I guess, they'd dug out a hole 4'x6' about 5 ft. deep, it had logs crisscrossed at the bottom with spikes, lotsa spikes sticking up outa them.

crazy loons, a guy could have been hurt bad in there, it was covered over with little sticks, grass and leaves.

A working moonshine still in N. Georgia. Several old stills that had been torn up.

A 20 m/m cannon at a mock ambush site, probably left by army training in area. Left it where I found it.

Thousands of fired and live .308 blanks in same area.

About 5 gallons of used condons in a remote spot on a old logging road. They were all in a neat pile.

Someone, or several someones, must have had some type of party.