Sweeet! A great way to end the day!

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keep this near the top this is an interesting read. i never find anything interesting, only stuff that I or my father in law have misplaced/lost on past excursions.

On my place back in California, we had acreage and 2 year round streams on our horse property, with many stands of hundred year old coastal live oaks. We had a heck of a time with the yotes and after shooting one with my Mini-14 I went to retrieve it. He was lying on top of a granite boulder under a huge multi-trunked oak tree that had been dropping leaves and acorns on that boulder for generations. I say boulder, but it was at least as big as most people's living rooms.

Anyway, as I was walking along the relatively flat top of the boulder I dang near broke my ankle. I had tripped in what was a prefectly shaped bowl. After scrapping away the leaves, I found 3 native indian metates that were used to grind up the acorns.

After that initial find I made it a habit of going out and looking around and subsequently found a portable metate (that was since stolen) and a bunch of pictographs on the face of an old boulder outcropping.

I have to say that the yote I shot actually ended up saving my home and those of the few neighbors I had in that little valley.
A few years after my discoveries we found out that the state water authority was looking for new storage areas and our little valley fit the bill perfectly. They wanted to dam up one end of the canyon then flood everything, including our homes and land.

At the time I had a government job that required me to review projects for environmental impacts under CEQA. Part of that was cultural impacts as well, so I had an idea what to do. I notified the local Ipai band of the Kumeyaay indian tribe of what I had found and the ensuing involvement of the tribe was enough to make the state look else where. They didn't want the hassle.

Yote & local guy 1, state government 0 !!

Not hunting related, but our old house used to be a stage stop on the Butterfield Overland Express Co. When we did a remodel of one portion of the structure, it was still the old single wall construction. In other areas we found all sorts of graphitti in what was once a part of the bunkhouse. We also found an area where someone had drawn a dartboard onto the wood and there where literally thousands of little dart holes. Scores where written right onto the wood. It was cool to imagine the guys passing time between stage visits.

We've found a lot of broken glassware, pottery and hundreds of glass marbles every time the rains get heavy. Weird.

we were hunting in Llano back in the early 90s. Last weekend of the season I decided to hunt on a track of land away from camp that no one uses. Decided to head up and check my feeder Friday evening before hunting Sat to make sure the feeder was running. We pulled up around 5 pm and underneath our feeder was a small vehicle. My first thought was someone was loading up a deer that they had just shot. Pulled up beside it and there was a man in the front seat with the window down. My dad said wait here I will go talk to him. MY dad rounds the front of the truck and turns ghostly white, not good for a man already have had a heart attack. THe man had shot himself in the head with the gun still in his hand in the other seat. It had to have been within the last couple of days. Luckly I did not go to the standin the moring at dark, this would have been horrific at 6 am. Come to find out supposedly he was a gay man from Georgetown that had recently split with his boy friend. I keep thinking what would have happened if I would not have decided to go to that stand that weekend. No one would have been by there for the next 5 months.

^^^ that is just messed up

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Cool thread keep em comin! Im gona make sure to keep an eye out this weekend when im at the ranch.

About 30 years ago while squirrel hunting Mississippi, i came across a soda bottle with a deer head on it. It was Buck Brand soda water Dug it up and brought it home and cleaned it up. About 15 years ago when found out via the internet it was made in Uvalde.

While elk hunting in New Mexico, we stopped to rest sitting on a big rock overlooking a meadow. I looked down and noticed a very old tobacco can. Picked it up and also found an old rifle casing (forgot exactly what kind). In my mind, someone had sat on that rock many years before to rest and smoke and I bet a big old elk had come out in that same meadow I was looking at.

That is cool!

I didnt find this but a co worker did on there lease in Palo pinto co 13yrs ago. After a rain he noticed a bike handle sticking out of the ground. He dug it up and found not only a bike but every thing you could think of wraped in plastic. I mean Gas cans cooking supplys can opener plates. They called the police because at first they were freaked out and thought some bike rider off 20 might have fell prey to a nut case. The dig was about 20ft long and had someones belongings from there entire life in it acept for ID. The police said they didnt know what to think. Its just one of the stangest things I ever heard of.

Found this big guy on Fort Campbell, KY on my way to my stand one morning in 2006. I think he roughly grossed somewhere in the low 130s.

Had a 2000 acre lease in southern Hamilton County near Evant for many years. We found several old homesteads with nothing left but a foundation and some old plows and farm equipment. One had an old root cellar. Not a big deal, but I found an old, old Listerine bottle next to our camp house. After reading this thread, I wish I'd have taken more time to scout for stuff on that place while we had it.

We also found an old rusted out pickup (Chevy I think) from the '30s or '40s in a creekbed behind our camp on a lease we had just southeast of Comanche in '05/'06.

Back when I was a kid we lived in an undeveloped area of northwest San Antonio.
I was out stalking cottontails with my pellet gun one day and found an old double barrel damascus shotgun. It had exposed hammers and everything. It was actually in the hollow of a big liveoak and was pretty well weather protected.
The wood was still good. Had a steel buttplate.

I only remember it as being damascus because of the unusual steel swirl color on it. As a little kid I didn't know too much about it.

Sad thing is I now don't recall what ever happened to it. I could kick myself for not having it. Also, I cannot recall the manufacturer or if it was even stamped.

I was hnting rabbits this christmas holiday in Mexico at my wife's families Rancho. I found a couple of arrow heads and forgot the dern things there.

I was driving to hunt ducks in Katy. I was turning from one road onto another. I noticed something red almost like a reflector off in the distance. By the time i got to the blind i could hear sirens in that direction. The next day I checked with the sheriffs deputy that works that area and he said it was a car burning in a ditch. Turns out a guy shot himself while driving the car. Which subsequently crashed and caught fire.

GO REBS

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At my ranch in Kim, Colorado we found a a trailer, which we later found out belonged to a ranch hand who was hired by the previous owner. We believed that he was most likely using it as a meth lab. We also found moon shine tubs that had been used in like the 50's and 60's. Down in the canyons of the ranch we have found many caves with carvings from indians in them.

At my ranch in Rotan, Texas we found an old deer blind which we think is from the 50's. We have also found many pieces of burnt flint, this probably means that we had indians there at one time.

After reading all of these stories, it is gonna scare me now to go out hunting on my own.

When I was a kid, Dad and I happened across an old Model A buried in the bank of a creek (in Delta County)

Mom and Dad's place had an oil well on it (we're guessing during the boom that started in Ranger) There's lots of old wire rope (cable) and some rusted out tools, hardware and other stuff.

I found a perfect Fiesta Ware bowl on top of a fence post. No telling how long it'd been there.

I've found quite a few old fossils and arrowheads out traipsing around as well.

I've got an old Coca Cola syrup bottle that I found in an old barn that I took shelter in during a rain storm one dove season. Label is still in decent shape. I keep unusual coins in it (wheat pennies, 50¢ pieces, silver dollars, etc)

Man I'm gonna go treasure hunting this weekend! GF has a family ranch thats been in the fam for at LEAST 100 years, they have all kinds of stuff out there

these bottles were sent over to the americas on ships way back in the day. there were racks built with holes in them in the bottom of the ship and they cradled the bottles for transport. i have several of these bottles. i also found the remnants of a whiskey still back in south carolina while hunting, when i was growing up.

Two graves. We were on BLM land near and maybe a reservation in northwest NM. We uncovered most of it before we realized what we had stumbled accross. We stacked the rock and left it as it was and didn't say a word as unearthing remains on a reservation just might get you an antlered-handle knife through the forearm (but mostly for respect).

At my grandparents land we found an old van from the 60's-70's that still has enough paint were we can read it delivered diapers. The windows are gone and its pretty much a rusted shell. Google earthed the land and about 20 yards from the van it looks like there might be another vehicle in some very heavy brush, going to check on that soon. Also found an old coke bottle about 3' deep while digging a post hole

Oh and I was just told that there might be an old box of guns in my grandparents attic! Have to check that out soon!

Oh and I was just told that there might be an old box of guns in my grandparents attic! Have to check that out soon! [/quote]



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