Aww dangit it..after reading this thread I think I'll do some searching on my place this weekend. There are at least 1 or 2 old structures on it that I've never poked around much...and I bet my creek bed might have some arrow heads around it..

I've never seen a rattler on my place..if I get bit by a rattler while I'm looking around nooks and crannies I don't usually haunt, I'm gonna kick someones butt! (after my son sucks the poison out that is).

Earl

Here are a few things that I found out hunting. The neat things Old knife in rafters of old falling down hunting cabin in Dripping Springs. Old Remington Blackpowder pistol along side river bank on the San Gabriel. Revolver cylinder in plowed filled while dove hunting. The cannon ball was found by a friend working the pipe-line around Oklahoma. Other smaller trinkets all over Texas along with about 40 Arrowheads

Thats is friggin awesome. I need to keep an eye out next time I am out in the field.

Yeah this thread makes me pay more attention to the things I am kicking outta the way, the next time we go down south I am going to spend a whole day taking pictures and looking for cool stuff.

This was before cell phones, but if it was now i would probably have call the authorities.

Out in the middle of nowhere in Utah scouting for mule deer the day before the season opened.

Old Indian dugout dwelling. The ladder to get in was new (relatively), everything else was original.

^^ Well that is freakin awesome!! ^^

Now you know where to hind if anyone is lookin for you

hell years ago... we had a place the river cut thru and one evening walking about 50 yrds of river bank found where some poacher gutted a deer.. was mad at first but felt better when we noticed leaning on a tree about 6 yds away was his rifle...

This is probably the most enjoyable thread I can remember in quite some time.

Fascinating stuff. Some is hilarious and some is down right spooky. Sure makes you want to know the "rest of the story..."

Please keep them coming.

Have that ordnance inspected. It might be an old dummy bomb, and it might be an old live one.

Old ordnance, even Civil War stuff, kills people even today. The French Army has a unit that does nothing but defuse stuff found from World War ONE (they haven't gotten to WW2-specific stuff yet)....and they lose a couple guys a year when stuff blows unexpectedly.

I have found some old indian head startings...that's about it. i did work with a guy awhile back and he was mule deer hunting in west Texas and decided to take a rest. As he was sitting there he noticed something out of place under some trees and went to investigate. The guy found an old mexican saddle that still had all the bags and pouches still attached. He took it back to camp and the landowner let him have it. I think they estimated the saddle to be about 100 years old. He has the mount on display at his house.

Last year we found 3 empty 280 rem cases in Joshua's box.


We dont own a 280 and I dont know anybody that does!!!!!!!!

these were all great havent found much of anything out hunting

a unopened 6 pack of dr pepper in my stand which i dont drink and we had none at the time, arrowheads, indian grinding stones (the one i found last week is pure quartz, and an old bottle that says something about liver tonic. all in burnet county

I found a A/C thermostat cover. No earthly reason for it to be where it was. I am guessing, it got picked up by a tornado somewhere and deposited on my land.

I was working at the lease and a screwdriver came up missing. Two years later I found that screwdriver and the cows have been eating on it.

Right after I got my lease near Graham I was walking the East fence line and saw something shiny on the other side of the fence. It was what looked like a pretty new microwave oven laying in the bushes. About 1/2 mile East of that location there were 3 trailers that looked like they had been destroyed by a tornado. I figure the microwave had to come from one of those trailers.

On the lease I had before buying my place I found a 1951 Ben Franklin 50 cent piece along an old (and I mean old) fence line bordering Falcon Lake. Figure it was lost by the workers putting in the fence back when the coin was new. Keep it in my wallet as a lucky piece.

Not exactly "while hunting", but since I bought my place a few years back, I find stuff all the time. Previous owners had the place over 30 years and pretty much left it 'as is' when I took possession and at first it was like a big treasure hunt. Just a few weeks ago I found a nice archery tower in some thick cover I didn't know I owned. Found lots of stuff (knives, watches, arrows) up in the rafters over the bunks. Wierdest was a tub of Kama Sutra oil (fortunately unopened)and some incense stuffed behind a cabinet. I left that for my hunting buddys that stay over in the bunk house.

Doug

sounds like a musket ball

All I ever found was a few arrowheads and a 1910 dime, laying heads up in a ditch.

nothing for me to brag about, but i am enjoyin' the stories..

Now, that's funny right there!!!

Just this week I found a cross down by the river, landowner already knew it was there. It reads " One man unknown 1881". I found that very interesting.

COOL, Its the first time I'v read 6 pages of any post.I found a back pack 8 miles back in the adirondacks. It had a camillios knife with a 10 " blade , some camping stuff and a bottle of 12 year old brandy. The rumer was a hunter got thrown off his horse and lost a backpack,rifle, and a horse. We left the brandy at our camping area under a rock and went back hunting 10 years later and got hammered.