I have found those too.. We had a place years ago near Mertzon, Texas that had one... Took us a few years to figure out what the hill was.. Then two berms in a perfect circle, exactly 100 yards apart. Bullseye for plains!!

Other than that, the weirdest thing I have found was a weather balloon.

I was hunting on the Pope ranch In Brewster county just north of the entrance of Big Bend park in 1966 and was sitting on a side of a mountain. Looked down below at a pile of rocks about 2' tall, checked it out and found a Prince Albert tobacco can,Inside was a piece of paper part in poor English and Spanish. It was a claim for for silver and gold, stated that it was filed in Alpine,I gave it to my Dad and over the years he lost it. I do remember that it was dated in the early 1920's. I would think that it would have been on private land back then.The Popes bought the ranch in the 1930's.Also found a lot of rattle snakes that year.

I have just completed all 3 pages of this and its great. Somebody should publish some of this stuff for like a pot reader. To date the only things i can remember finding are not that weird. We found some old barrels in an net strung together and floated out to an island on Caddo. My father worked at Thiokol army ammunition plant then and said he recognized them as haz mat barrels. he also instructed me to quit fishing in that area. We also used to find miniature parachutes with stuff tied to them hanging from cypress trees that dad said was testing done by Thiokol of some kind. We found them WAY out too like almost all the way into LA side and over past big pines.

Hunting elk in Colorado dad found an old cattle camp and stopped to eat lunch. He found an old whip which I still have and an weird old toy gun that has a bolt and everything but a spring deal poking out of the end of it. I have that as well.

cool stories

Last season was the 1st year on my new place. its actually quite small compared to other places, only about 300 acres. Anyways, I had already set my stand and feeder along an old fence line early in September, along a creek bed. When I had put up the stand and my feeded the grass was around 3 foot high as it was still quite warm. I would periodically return every 2-3 weeks, check and fill my feeder and pull my card from my game cam, but never noticed anything odd.
Well the day after Thanksgiving I returned to my stand, and spotted a decent 8-point and took the shot, DRT. I get out of my stand, and keep in mind by this time the grass has died and the hogs have made a huge wallow in front of my feeder near where I shot the deer at. As I approach the deer on the ground, I see something metal and cylindrical in shape sticking out of the ground in the mud. I really wasnt too interested in taking a further look at right then, as I was more focues on the deer I just shot. I proceed to tie a rope around the legs to drag back to camp, and as I turn around to start pulling the deer away, I see another metal object sticking out of the ground about 3 feet away. Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I pull the first object out of the ground. It was an old coffee can rusted but still sealed up. I open it up and inside wrapped up in an old newspaper is small ugly looking semi-auto pistil. Closer inspection revealed it to be a .25 auto.
I pulled the other object out of the ground and come to find out it was an old mason type jar, with the lid still sealed as well. I couldnt get the lid off in the field so I ended up taking it back to camp I knew it had something inside, because I could hear it rattling inside. Eventually had to break it open, and inside I found about 30 rounds of old ammo for the pistol, and old fixed blade knife, and old rusted pocket knife wrapped in a bandana that had some sort of old stains on it. I ended up taking the pistol to a local gunsmith who informed me that the pistol was an old German manufactured pistol, made around 1917 or so. He offered me 200.00 bucks for it right there on the spot, but I passed. I ended up giving it to my buddy as a birthday present.
It was one of the ugliest looking pistols I have ever seen in my life.
UPDATE: I called my buddy and it was an old "MANN" .25 automatic pistol. Still functions and fires. The pic below is not the actual pistol but looks almost identical.

Sorry for your loss.

In 1995 I was a Lt in the Marines attending The Basic School in Quantico. From time to time on field exercises we would have leftover blank ammo and the instructors would tell us to bury it because they didn't want to mess with turning it back in to the armory. One day we were out on a field exercise and had to dig foxholes in the snow. I started on mine and about a foot down discovered about 6 or 7 M1 garand clips loaded with blanks. They were all rusted up and I ended up leaving them there but had a big laught at how some instructor 40 years earlier had told his students to bury their blanks.

My Dad was hunting the family property when I was a kid and found an old pump 22 laying on the ground in the woods. Turned out to be my grandfather's rifle. he had lost it as a child. He was born in 1916. You can imagine the amount of trouble my grandfather got into for loosing that gun. All the wood was gone, and the gun was/is uselss now. But the story attached to it is priceless.

My uncle, hunting the same property heard some noise one day while hunting. Coming from the creek bed. So he put the sneak on, and it turned out to be a neighbor girl and her boyfriend doing the deed on a big sandbar.

We find old bottles in the creek all the time.

We also find a lot of nice petrified wood too.

I found a bunch of pink and black balloons in the bottoms down there. Floated down from who knows where, no tags on them.

I found the contents of a file cabinet burnt in a small clearing about 3 yrs ago. looked to have been there a couple of years at the time. Hanging file racks and related items, along with a pretty good pile of ashes. That still is a head-scratcher. No-one admits to it.

My best find yet?

We were rattle snake hunting SE of Evant many years ago. We had gassed the den and were waiting on the snakes. I was sitting down taking a drink and my buddy was looking around on the ground. I asked what he was looking for? Arrowheads. I looked down and right beside me on the ground was an arrowhead. First one I'd ever found. My buddy had never found one either. Chapped his hide just a bit, lol.

I've never found anything worth speaking of.

Bump for an awesome thread

Bump x2 for a great thread...Keep 'em coming.

I found a 4 wheeler in the creek once. Looked like they were trying to run the creek and found a deep hole in a bend.

Nothing that interesting from me.

Found a piece of roofing material once near a stand that I had hunted for many years. With not a house anywhere near it and well back in the woods on timber company land, I feel safe saying it came from a twister that passed through the area the week before.

I haven't looked back through all the previous posts, but did anyone report having found a piece of the Space Shuttle that broke apart over East Texas?

My son and I were scouting after the season when we found something really strange. Looked over and there was a fox that had gotten himself stuck about 3-4 feet off the ground in the Y of the trunk of a tree and a branch. He must have tried getting out so violently that I think he broke his spine. Very strange and something I will never see again.

I had this great 8 point on my camera last year that I was looking forward to bagging. He dissapeared a few days before opening day. Week into the season I found signs of poachers and started walking the property. Found the deer and he had been shot and either lost or just left.

Two things. One I found and one my B-i-L found. My find was an old arrow stuck in a tree at about head height. That was back in the late 1960's. We were on family land and nobody we knew had ever bow hunted. The arrow had been there for a very long time and had drooped downward as the wooden shaft slowly succumbed to the weather. It had a metal broadhead of a design that none of us or any of the local bowhunters had ever seen. I think I still have the arrow. As for the BIL, he lost his binocs one year (or so he says) and he replaced them with some really high dollar Swarovski binocs. The next season he was riding his 4wheeler through our hunting area and (he says) a glint of light caught his eye and there were his old binocs. Still in fine shape. Hmmmm. I never really believed his story about the accidental loss. His Swarovski glass is really nice.

I don't even know where to start. I have found lots of very old glass bottles, arrows, and arrowheads like others. Old duck decoys, old shoes/waders, I found a dead cat stuck in the fork of a tree one time that I will withhold photographic evidence of. This old boat has been sitting in my farm bottoms for who knows how long, even when it floods it doesn't wash it away.

I have found 200+ 50 cal. brass as well as 200+ 223 blanks, and some razor wire. I should mention that the place I hunt backs up to Fort Hood near Gatesville. The best find was a deer tracking collar and when I called about it I was accused of poaching because it was off of a doe that was tagged near lake Belton and the distance was too far for the deer to travel. I was a little mad about how the girl running the study was acting but I know it was not poached and where I found it was the very middle of our place. It would not have been dropped by anybody other than the deer.

Oh yeah, also found this blind half submerged in a river.

I was squirrel hunting on a creek by my house when I was a kid and found an old pair of gold rim spectacles ( reading glasses)

While hunting on Black Gap WMA, a friend of mine stumbled over an old tobacco tin. When he opened it, there was a treasure map in it. (i need to ask him what he did with it).

The map was very fragile and difficult to read.

We also found arrowheds and Indian Metates (sp?) that were used to crush seeds.

We were riding along with a deputy sheriff while quail hunting along the Rio Bravo once when we spotted some large stones and a stick pointing to the river. The deputy thought it was a sign that Mexican drug runners had been through there but I was skepitical. Five minutes later, we ran across a family camping. They said that they put the stick and rocks down to mark their trot lines. The deputy was a little embarrased.

I lost my hub cap cover to my lugs for my truck about 3 years ago, did not have a clue where I had lost it?
This spring I was walking close to the feeder where I had walked 100 of times since, and there the darn thing was still looked good! It was about 20 yards away in some low grass bigger than Day Light?? I have since lost that same one again

Bump again I wanna see some more stories

Was wondering what happened to my old blind!!!!

i found a game camera mounted on a tree off a trail i was hunting once. Of course the land owner said it wasnt his. Oh well, an extra game for me