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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: muleyman6570]
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11/06/09 05:29 AM
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CTK3
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not hunting but riding the trails in terlingua texas ran across a playboy stash in a abandoned well shaft and a bottle of lubriderm nearest settlement about 20 miles Mexican rest station.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: CTK3]
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11/06/09 03:27 PM
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GUBRLEE
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I also found a stash of REALLY dirty magazines from the 60's when I was a kid in an old abandoned barn. Much worse than what you can buy today if you can beieve that.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have"-Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: GUBRLEE]
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11/06/09 04:01 PM
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John2
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I knew a gunsmith that found a Remington 11 leaning against a fence post while hunting.He had to replace the stock/forearm and reblue after getting the rust off.I bought it from him back in 73 and i still use it.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: John2]
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11/06/09 04:12 PM
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A.D.
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Was walking through the woods at large deer lease in east texas with a buddy of mine, and cam acroos a make shift "camp" there was no roof just a bed a sink with no running water and what gave us the creeps is the place was littered with childrens clothing and dolls?????? Needless to say we packed up our stuff and head out of there!!!!
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: A.D.]
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11/06/09 04:18 PM
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bigtuna
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not near as interesting as you guys, just a bunch of old coke bottles and beer cans that have the old timey logos.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: bigtuna]
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11/06/09 04:29 PM
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cody
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My FIL found an old windchester rifle leaned against a tree up on a hill on our place. The wood was gone and it was cocked and rusted firm. Story has it that a payroll wagon traveling from Fort Phantom to Fort Concho was high jacked on our place. All the soldiers were killed. The old timers say that they buried the silver up there and that there's a wagon axle that marks the spot. We know where there's an axle but haven't found the silver. Kinda makes you wonder what happened to the owner of that rifle...
I've found several old dummy bombs on top of another little hill. There was a WWII training base here and they used to practice dropping bombs on that hill. I've found tons of fossils and arrow heads. Found an old spur once down on a place I managed north of Dryden, that was pretty cool.
I knew a guy that found a buffalo vertebrae with a flint arrowhead still lodged in it! Coolest find ever! He has it on his desk in a little glass case.
On a place we had leased for cattle east of Stephenville my grandad found a guy hanging in a tree by an old barn. The cops all showed up and they were doing there investigation. Pop walked up to one of them and said, "When ya'll are done with that monkey you make sure I get my rope back..."
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: cody]
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11/06/09 07:43 PM
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eedsmx691
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Found a three room bunker, about 6 feet underground with steps going down in to it. sleeping bags and magazines inside. I check and see if anything has moved every time I go. I would put a trail camera up, but worried that it will get ripped off.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: Woody Wood]
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11/06/09 07:44 PM
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pyledriver
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Found a TON of cool rocks, another ton of cool fossils, some 50bmg bullets, arrowheads, cool animal skulls, some indian markers and even some old Spanish trail markers... I found a tennis shoe in Junction along with some candy wrappers-probably from a NEW trail marker, the Mexican kind!
"Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it" -Mark Twain
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
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11/06/09 08:42 PM
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ssgp2
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It's funny how people support homosexuality if it involves two attractive women......
I happen to be one of those people. Might as well support it. Not like I'd get a second look even if they were heterosexual. yea, this thread would have gone a whole other direction if he found his two male hunting buddies....Just sayin Thanks rstewlandman. That just ruined the whole thing Now we know who NOT to go huntin' with.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: ssgp2]
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11/06/09 11:07 PM
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txtrophy85
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i've found some old beer cans, some really old barb wire (1880's ish), but nothing really of any mention.
my buddy found a dead mexican (he'd been gone a LONG time, probably of dehydration) i don't find them but others in my group routinely find arrowheads and spear points.
I spend a lot of time in the woods, but i've yet to find anything of notible mention that wasn't trash or discarded junk
one cool thing about a place i hunted when i was a kid, the owner of the land we hunted showed us a graveyard on his property, that had some really old grave sites on it, most of them were from the mid 1800's. just outside huntsville, the town was called cincinnati and yellow fever had wiped out the whole town. many of its residents were buried in the grave yard we visited.
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For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: trophy harvester]
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11/07/09 02:59 AM
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A buddy of mine and I were bow hunting for Javelina in Arizona on the back side of a lake on state land back in the early eighties. We followed a game trail up a rock ledge and by chance discovered a small entry hole under a rock out cropping. The entry was not nuch larger than 3-4 feet. Apparently the pigs had used this as a bedding area. Turned on the flash light and found broken bits and pieces of indian potery. I could hardly stand the smell of the pig droppings. Definately a cool discovery.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: TexasVine]
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11/07/09 11:18 PM
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fishonthemove
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I've found some arrows made from stone, a 1918 cartridge and a 12 pack of S L 43 looks like .50 cal ammunition from 1943 WWII
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: fishonthemove]
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11/07/09 11:29 PM
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txtrophy85
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hell now i have to ask, where the two women even remotly good looking????
I know the first thing that comes to peoples minds is two young blondes in bikini's, but is that the way it went down?
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: robbf213]
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11/08/09 03:40 AM
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Stax
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So many unusual things, where should I start?
Meth lab, 2 fields of weed, both in NE Texas. South Texas 20 miles from the border: lots of arrowheads, many mexican pesos while looking for arrowheads, 5 bales of weed (40 pounds each) wrapped in burlap(hidden before BP caught them), duffel bag of cocaine(50 pounds), lots of stolen and wrecked out vehicles used for hauling illegals, and old lever action rifle, wood rotted off, grown into a mesquite tree, and what was left of two dead illegals after the hogs and coyotes finished their work. A metal arrowhead(1800's) and some really old .45 ammo from around the ruins of an old stagecoach station. ...Hang on...A Meth Lab, 2 fields of weed, another 200 pounds of weed and 50 pounds of coke, stolen cars with some dead guys as a kicker!?!?!?! Dude where are you hunting at, I believe I would leave! Was all of this in the same spot???
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: Stax]
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11/08/09 02:13 PM
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MarkG
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I've found several old dummy bombs on top of another little hill. There was a WWII training base here and they used to practice dropping bombs on that hill. I've found tons of fossils and arrow ,,,,,,
Me too.west on 277 outside Abilene
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: MarkG]
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11/08/09 02:33 PM
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pig out
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I've found an old farmstead with a few houses, a barn, a well, and a cellar. i also found a big 10 foot ladder
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: pig out]
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11/08/09 02:58 PM
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tex_ttu
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When I was in Junior High, we were at a friends ranch in the Delaware Mts. in deep West Texas, and at the edge of a canyon, we found a hole that was 10'-15' deep that had a ladder down in it. There was also an opening at the bottom. We don't know what it could have been used for, no other sign, like bottles, shell casings, ect. The rancher didn't even know it was there, and he had been on the place since '75. May have been Pancho Villa's hide outs or something, who know's
Am I a bow hunter with a rifle problem, or a rifle hunter with a bow problem??? We may never know...
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: tex_ttu]
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11/08/09 03:55 PM
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cody
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Hey Texttu we hunt in the Delawares several times a year. There was an old hermit that lived out there in the 30's through the 50's. We found his dugout one time. Lots of cool stuff around it. Now what would make a man live in such unforgiving country all alone? Hiding out I expect. Prolly dug that hole you're talking about...
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: robbf213]
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11/09/09 12:28 AM
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klepdo
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So many unusual things, where should I start?
Meth lab, 2 fields of weed, both in NE Texas. South Texas 20 miles from the border: lots of arrowheads, many mexican pesos while looking for arrowheads, 5 bales of weed (40 pounds each) wrapped in burlap(hidden before BP caught them), duffel bag of cocaine(50 pounds), lots of stolen and wrecked out vehicles used for hauling illegals, and old lever action rifle, wood rotted off, grown into a mesquite tree, and what was left of two dead illegals after the hogs and coyotes finished their work. A metal arrowhead(1800's) and some really old .45 ammo from around the ruins of an old stagecoach station. I would be able to retire 50 lbs of coke is about 22 kilos worth $ 1,700,000.00
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: TexasVine]
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11/09/09 12:36 AM
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brokenpole
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A buddy of mine and I were bow hunting for Javelina in Arizona on the back side of a lake on state land back in the early eighties. We followed a game trail up a rock ledge and by chance discovered a small entry hole under a rock out cropping. The entry was not nuch larger than 3-4 feet. Apparently the pigs had used this as a bedding area. Turned on the flash light and found broken bits and pieces of indian potery. I could hardly stand the smell of the pig droppings. Definately a cool discovery. if you would have dug around you would have found at least 100 arrowheads in that cave
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: Stax]
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11/09/09 12:56 AM
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robbf213
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So many unusual things, where should I start?
Meth lab, 2 fields of weed, both in NE Texas. South Texas 20 miles from the border: lots of arrowheads, many mexican pesos while looking for arrowheads, 5 bales of weed (40 pounds each) wrapped in burlap(hidden before BP caught them), duffel bag of cocaine(50 pounds), lots of stolen and wrecked out vehicles used for hauling illegals, and old lever action rifle, wood rotted off, grown into a mesquite tree, and what was left of two dead illegals after the hogs and coyotes finished their work. A metal arrowhead(1800's) and some really old .45 ammo from around the ruins of an old stagecoach station. ...Hang on...A Meth Lab, 2 fields of weed, another 200 pounds of weed and 50 pounds of coke, stolen cars with some dead guys as a kicker!?!?!?! Dude where are you hunting at, I believe I would leave! Was all of this in the same spot??? Meth and weed is close to Caddo Lake, Everything else was in Dimmit, Zavala, Webb and Maverick counties. The bodies were just out in pastures not near the cars. Deer down there are too big to just leave.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: robbf213]
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11/09/09 01:30 AM
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I have found .50 cal ammo, arrow heads, stone scrapers, a minnie ball, couple of decent deer skulls with antlers attachments, what was left of an old log cabin in NM, horse shoes, old brass, a guy sitting in my box blind, old arrows, a back pack with some old clothes and a little bit of jerky, 3 wets hiding in some bushes while I opened a gate , an old pint whiskey bottle with a swig left in it, shell and snail fossils , and I know I have forgotten some stuff.
" If you can't have no fun, it ain't no use a'goin' ! " - old man in a Sweetwater , TX cafe
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: Bobby B]
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11/09/09 01:54 AM
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Stoney
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I found a dog tag looking thing with a creamatorium name and number on it a couple of weeks ago at our place in Bowie. Kind of unnerving
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
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11/09/09 02:04 AM
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Sounds like somebody scattered some ashes over your lease......recent death in the ranchers family?
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting
[Re: Ox190]
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11/09/09 03:03 AM
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I guess so. The family we bought it from said he died a few years ago. Kinda cool, he was a published retriever trainer. Guess it was him
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