While I was Hunting...

[Lungbuster]

I have found several arrows and I found a nice 6 point elk shed. which I got offered 100 bucks for.... He was drunk...I should have taken him up on that offer, now that I think about it...........

[WAcoueshunter]

Anybody ever see this?

[bow4elk]

My hunting partner found a bow that was at least 10 years old.  I found a set of Binos with moss growing on them.  Found about a dozen arrows over the years.  And a pile of those foil ballons that wind up floating for miles before finally landing somewhere.  Seems like I'm destined to wad them up and pack them out...

And I've lost about 10 elk bugles and about 6 deer grunt calls.  Finders keepers.

[Rick]

I didn't really "find" them per se, my buddy did the year before and we went back to see them.  There are 2 memorial plaques on a bluff in unit 342 overlooking a large portion of unit 346 and Bald Mountain.  They have the names of 2 hunters who passed away over the last few years.  Kinda cool.  I wish I knew the stories behind them.  They are very ornate, some really nice woodwork.  They are planted in the ground very heavy duty like on 4X4 posts.  Someone went to a lot of trouble to get those out there.  There's an empty little bottle of wiskey at the base of each of them.  I'm sure they were members of one of the camps in the area that have been there forever.

Up towards the top of FSR 530?

I'm pretty sure I've seen them as well.

[huntnphool]

A buddy of mine found a hand gun a couple years ago.

[alanger]

forgot about this one........I found a dead dog once.....actually sort of dug it up and thought it was a kid wrappe dup in a blanket that someone had buried....turns out just an old dog someone brough tup and shot

FEFEEEEEE!!!!!         

[Dansk]

a solitary telegraph pole on a high peak- complete with insulators and about 4 feet of wire

a hot twenty something running down the trail in a skimpy jogging outfit deep in the Paysayten (a thousand feet above our drop camp) .... she was exercising- on a jog.  by herself.

a bobcat that was stalking me (small young one)

The best thing was while I was salmon fishing in the middle of nowhere canada - a buddies dad uncovered an entrance to an old sea cave- went inside and found a native burial cave.  Complete with bentwood cedar boxes - most were tiny- probably from the small pox that wiped them out when the whites landed.  there were also large canoes- like 20-30 feet long propped up high on stumps in the middle of the woods with moss covered skulls and bones in them.  I know its not hunting related, but worth telling- he was the first to find it and nobody had been there for a long, long time.  It was creepy.

[bow4elk]

Wow.  Any pics?

[Thenewguy]

I came across a freezer in the woods , It was duct taped shut and in huge letters it said " DO NOT OPEN "   I dint open it but i wish i did 

How could you not open it?!?!?!

[lj77]

I was shed hunting one time in eastern washington and came across a coyote diggen a hole as hard and as fast as he could.I shot it and went to see what he was after and it was  a dozen or so of empty original prince albert tobacco tins.No roads even close to the area

[Hunting Cowboy]

In the mid to late 90's while bow hunting for elk, I came across what was apparently an old horse camp (elk camp)
I found a rusted out cast iron cook stove and a rusty small wood stove like you'd see in a wall tent complete with rusted out stove pipe. There were old spent shell casings, some were driven into the meat pole. There were empty steel cans and pop or beer cans that were opened with the old style can openers. In the same spot I found some rotted leather horse hobbles, a broken lantern and a small double bitted axe with a rotted handle sunk into a block of wood. I kept the axe head. There was and old meat pole that was near rotten and an old fire pit that contained the old beer or pop bottle caps.

I ran into this old elk camp just after I had two very close encounters/opportunities at a six point bull and another bull that I never could quite see. Both bulls were within 30 - 50 yards screaming at me. Just could'nt close the deal. Then after a very exciting morning at about 10:30am, the elk shut up and disappeared. As I was making my way up out of that hole, I ran across the reminents of the old horse camp. I see why they were there. It was in a small saddle surrounded by three or four drainages that all held elk.

On another trip not far from this old elk camp, we found a set of binos that were almost brand new. My dad still uses them.

[300rum]

I found two twenty dollar bills inside a pack of (empty) swisher sweets.  I could see a little green in the window and thought that it looked odd.  I guess that is what you get for littering?

I found a fish and bird knife, I always wanted one of those.

Chips where the Indians made arrowheads.  I have found two of these areas actually.

A box canyon with a creek and huge pool in the middle of nowhere with all kinds of big trout and not one single Styrofoam worm container.

An axe in a tree, where someone stuck it into the tree with their arm extended.  I look in camps all the time.

I went back to where I shot my first deer a year latter and found my binoculars hanging on a limb where we gutted him out.  (I didn't even know they were gone, I was probably 10 at the time.)

I lost my wallet hunting one year with two special permits in it.  I tore the house apart trying to find that wallet as I didn't even know I lost it in the woods.  I got it back a year and a half latter, with the money, in the mail with no info on who found it or where they found it.  It was chewed up and pretty rough.  I found one small piece a year latter on a trail that I walked regularly, that is the only way I knew I lost it in the woods.  I sure would like to thank that guy.

A fish who died trying to eat a fish that was too big for him, it was the weirdest thing, I wish I had a camera.  At first I though that I was looking at a fish with two tails.

[River]

Remains of a meth camp in the Wind River unit.

[cle elum bowhunter]

three years ago I found plane wreckage up in the Wilderness above Gold Creek while looking for elk.  Took down the tail # and reported it to FAA.  Got an email back that it was a couple of guys from Wenatchee in the 70's that went down in a storm.  Aluminum airframe still looked good.  Wreckage scattered down side of mountain as they clipped a big fir on the ridge, found most of the plane. 

[jeepasaurusrex]

Was it this one?


If not, do you still have the N number off it?