What have you found while hunting??

[Hawgdawg]

Found a lot of neat stuff over the years. Float plane wreckage in Alaska. No bodies. Side by side rusted out shotgun, stock missing in the Brooks Range sheep hunting. Lots of rotted out old trappers cabins.
Knives, maps, warm two point cougar kill.  Walking stick that I tried to find the owner. I looked it up on the net and it is made in Germany out of a root. worth 250.00. Lost it mushroom hunting last week, when I went chasing some elk. Spent two hours looking for it and found it! Now it has high viz tape on it.
The last two months I have found. A old crosscut saw stuck in a tree stump. (Put it back) Blown glass bottle with the purex sign blown into it. My dog's hunting coat that he lost 3 years ago. Mice chewed it a little but that was a needle in the haystack find. And a old Heidelberg beer can with the church key opening triangles. Upside down on a stump and in very good shape.

[HunterStrait]

Three dead cow elk snagged up in an elk fence.

[RadSav]

My Great Grandfather found a Model 99 .303 Savage with octagon barrel leaning against a tree in the mid 1950s and gave to my dad for his first deer rifle.  It blew up on my dad while shooting at a deer when he was in his teens and in 1989 I had it rebuilt by a Master Gunsmith.  Turned out pretty nice.  I too have found some preety cool memorials of hunters past.

Was that in the Capitol Forest?  My grandmother used to tell a story of times being so bad during and just after the war they resorted to poaching for meat.  Story goes my grandfather had shot a small deer about 100 yards from the road and before he could return to get his gun they saw someone coming up the road.  So they took off and took the deer home.  They spent days trying to find the spot again and never could.  They had to borrow money and even cooked bricks in their kitchen oven to afford the gasoline to go up and look for the gun.  Finally they just had to give up and grandpa's 303 was lost forever.

Nope.  It was in Stevens County, Washington.  Huckleberry Unit 121.

Bummer!  Thought we might have a story here!!

[tholas]

Wow, some crazy stuff people find.  I have found a knife stuck in a tree and me and my dad found some Axes that looked like the loggers just left after they were done clear cutting.  lots of empty cans, still dont know why you would pack in a pop drink it then just throw it on the ground.  Pack it out people.  The coolest thing was a spear head off of a Atlatl the Fort Rock unit in Oregon.  I took it my college anthropology professor and he could not believe that we just found it since it was in such great shape. Funny thing was that it was on a fence line just laying on top of rock.  My dad thought it was a piece of plastic because it was black from being made from obsidian.  he just hit it with his boot and realized it was a spear head. 
 

[plugger]

2 pot grows, one oldtimer knife. ( Its the one I use now) and a cell phone. Called the home number on it and he came and got it.

[trophyhunt]

Wow, some crazy stuff people find.  I have found a knife stuck in a tree and me and my dad found some Axes that looked like the loggers just left after they were done clear cutting.  lots of empty cans, still dont know why you would pack in a pop drink it then just throw it on the ground.  Pack it out people.  The coolest thing was a spear head off of a Atlatl the Fort Rock unit in Oregon.  I took it my college anthropology professor and he could not believe that we just found it since it was in such great shape. Funny thing was that it was on a fence line just laying on top of rock.  My dad thought it was a piece of plastic because it was black from being made from obsidian.  he just hit it with his boot and realized it was a spear head.

That is sweet! I would love to find a spearhead, bad azz.  Could the professor age it or tell you anything about the time it was used in?  I forgot to add that besides the arrow head I found, I also found a skinning knife made from rock or obsidian on the eastside a few years ago.  Can't find the damn thing now though!

[grundy53]

I can't think of much that is too odd. But I came across a couple similar threads. The ifish one has some really bizarre findings... Once you get started it's quite hard to stop reading these threads! Don't start at work, your day will be shot, trust me 

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/strange-things-found-in-the-woods.70261/

The ifish thread is amazing! I haven't even looked at the other one.

[bowhunterty]

A ejection seat to a F-86 back in late 80's. A buddy and I found it in a swamp while elk hunting the coast.

[wadu1]

Headless Barbi doll in deep timber off the 1702 FS road. It was well worn in some spots, I think some BF juvie was playing with it or some pervert from the wetside? Parts to an old CCC tin hat (CCC was stamped into the brim). An axe head stuck in a tree and the handle was rotted off long ago. Brass from a 32-20 on an old deer trail south of Republic in the late 60's.

[longstevo]

In Idaho, I found a Forest Service survey pack in an old clear cut. 

[RadSav]

Headless Barbi doll in deep timber off the 1702 FS road. It was well worn in some spots, I think some BF juvie was playing with it or some pervert from the wetside?

I came across a pile of bear poop one time that had an almost complete GI Joe in it!   Good thing it came out head first 

[Hilltop123]

Remnants of an old rail road bridge crossing, in a deep canyon. This was above Discovery Bay. I have found several old rail beds from the old days of logging. If you know where to look, there is an old flat bed rail car, laying on the bottom of Ludlow lake, when the suns just right you can see the whole thing. 

[longstevo]

Remnants of an old rail road bridge crossing, in a deep canyon. This was above Discovery Bay. I have found several old rail beds from the old days of logging. If you know where to look, there is an old flat bed rail car, laying on the bottom of Ludlow lake, when the suns just right you can see the whole thing.

That's really neat.  While hunting along a flat plateau where they used to log, I hunted in there all season with snow on the ground, and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.  Next year we were in there with no snow, and there was a three foot chunk of railroad iron laying next to an old railbed.  This was two miles in from the trailhead!  So no one packed it in.  Cool history. 

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I just remembered the old hand carved springboard I found in a huge cedar stump near Naselle back in the early 90s. I didn't grab it as I was chasing a herd of elk. Always planned to go back and get it, but never did.

[ctwiggs1]

A ejection seat to a F-86 back in late 80's. A buddy and I found it in a swamp while elk hunting the coast.

That would be sweet.  How do you know it was from an F-86??