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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: bigjoe8565] #8160341 02/08/21 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Son of a Blitch
That’s wonderful find and an even better gift. Nicely done!


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Scouting the lease for a new area with my Dad and we stumbled across this 1930s GMC truck. My Dad really thought it would be cool to have the front grill to hang on his shed. I called the land owner and asked if I could purchase the grill. We agreed on a price and I gave it to my Dad for Father’s Day. Doesn’t seem like it would weight that much, but that weighed a lot. I used a game cart to haul it out of the woods (about 400 yards) over some rough ground.

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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8160355 02/08/21 01:08 PM
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #8160576 02/08/21 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Erathkid
It hangs from the bottom of a kind of 'purse sein' to hold it down. Very crude but they actually worked well. They are probably 5-6k years old. If you look up 'Bola sinker artifacts' there's a lot of info on them. I have one that was found in Gruene on the Guadalupe. One of the local archaeologists told me what it was. Fascinating.


Ahh, good to know, thanks for sharing that! It makes sense as I don't see any evidence of strikes to either end, and would explain the the location of the find. Cheers!!


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8161042 02/08/21 10:45 PM
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Stub] #8161555 02/09/21 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Stub

Originally Posted by Son of a Blitch
That’s wonderful find and an even better gift. Nicely done!


Originally Posted by bigjoe8565
Scouting the lease for a new area with my Dad and we stumbled across this 1930s GMC truck. My Dad really thought it would be cool to have the front grill to hang on his shed. I called the land owner and asked if I could purchase the grill. We agreed on a price and I gave it to my Dad for Father’s Day. Doesn’t seem like it would weight that much, but that weighed a lot. I used a game cart to haul it out of the woods (about 400 yards) over some rough ground.

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The cab would make a great deer blind! Seriously.


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8164404 02/11/21 12:41 AM
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My Great Great Grandfather owned all the land on Sister Grove Creek. Unfortunately, my Great Grandfather, a physician in Collin County, Lost all of it during the Great Depression. Luckily, my father growing up in Sherman, had connections to hunt a lot of the old property. One year, he took my older brother and me fishing around Loy Lake Road and the present 75 bypass.

He and my brother fished this one tank, and he told me to go squirrel hunt this particular area, that could be the strangest place you will ever go. So I head off in the direction he told me to go, and it being winter, the Post Oak leaves were fully covering the ground. Once I crested the hill, the trees changed to something I can’t remember but looked like a white stripped mesquite tree (this was long ago, and my memory sucks.). No leaves covered the ground, which looked like flaked clay, dark gray in color with a clear stream running through the middle. It was a very spiritual place. After zeroing on squirrel, I headed back to the truck, where dad grinned and asked what I thought. Of which I said, it had to be a Native American burial ground or sacred place. He told me those trees had bull Snakes hanging from them and coyotes running up and down the stream during the summer. Maybe Choctaw or other natives to the area would know?

Have a buddy, that owns a somewhat large ranch once caught a famous Texas Ranger poaching on his property. The Ranger in question was not well-known at the time.

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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8169965 02/14/21 10:15 PM
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I was bow hunting moose in the Fairbanks management area and stepped on an old piece of plywood covered by the tundra. I looked underneath it and there was a radiator and shell from a 1935 International truck. It even had the alcohol auto shutter still attached. I couldn't carry it very far so I got my 4 wheeler and brought it out. I thought it looked really cool and it is now the radiator shell on my 1937 Terraplane hot rod!

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Originally Posted by Tundra Trapper
I was bow hunting moose in the Fairbanks management area and stepped on an old piece of plywood covered by the tundra. I looked underneath it and there was a radiator and shell from a 1935 International truck. It even had the alcohol auto shutter still attached. I couldn't carry it very far so I got my 4 wheeler and brought it out. I thought it looked really cool and it is now the radiator shell on my 1937 Terraplane hot rod!


Thats awesome!

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We found aluminum arrows on our lease. We all shot carbon arrows.
Found a guy sitting in one of our box blinds one morning.
Found the fence cut and opened up wide enough to drive a pickup through so they had to kill something.
I the early 70’s I found one of the boxes they had sterile screw flies in. I was told they were dropped out of airplanes it was in my grandpas hay patch.
I have n eye brand pocket my brother gave me 40 years ago I lost it several times but I keep finding it back?

Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8329675 07/23/21 09:04 PM
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8329685 07/23/21 09:20 PM
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In the back most blind of a lease just north of Sisterdale that we'd just got on in 1977 - some previous hunter's entire collection of Playboys. I was 17. Guess where I was on Opening Day?


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Creekrunner] #8330193 07/24/21 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Creekrunner
In the back most blind of a lease just north of Sisterdale that we'd just got on in 1977 - some previous hunter's entire collection of Playboys. I was 17. Guess where I was on Opening Day?

Seeing allot hanging around the bushes that day smile ani


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: bigjoe8565] #8330199 07/24/21 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bigjoe8565
Scouting the lease for a new area with my Dad and we stumbled across this 1930s GMC truck. My Dad really thought it would be cool to have the front grill to hang on his shed. I called the land owner and asked if I could purchase the grill. We agreed on a price and I gave it to my Dad for Father’s Day. Doesn’t seem like it would weight that much, but that weighed a lot. I used a game cart to haul it out of the woods (about 400 yards) over some rough ground.

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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8330227 07/24/21 03:37 PM
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A 1930's grill on the shed has to be a first. up

Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8421416 10/17/21 06:42 PM
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Time to bring this back. Happy hunting everyone.


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #8423175 10/19/21 03:54 AM
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Found this rounded rock with an irregular groove worn around it while looking around a dry creek bed at our lease in Blanco Co. It caught my attention because it didn't match any of the other rocks on the creek bed and is was very round. The groove surprised me and I kept it and cleaned it out. I've asked a few people who are arrowhead hunters and they believe that it is a very old stone hammer, but it's hard to say. I keep it in my office as I like the idea that this was a tool used by hunters who came before me!

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That's a 'Bola sinker', paleo-early archaic. Looks like a 'Waco sinker' except it's not notched. Groove encircles the rock. Very cool find.




Yes Bola 'Stone' not necessarily a sinker as with Waco Sinkers. Actually all of those are somewhat problematic artifacts in that size, shape, where found, time period etc....likely play into their purpose/use. Anything from actual sinkers, to net weights (land/game nets to be included) also Bolo's or medicine stones/amulets.

There is much disagreement on the subject. But in any case... a unique find, worthy of keeping and displaying the artifact as it IS in fact quite old made by the hands of someone who walked this Earth long before us.

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A drunk poacher that asked us for a Coke!

Actually think it may of happened while hunting with a THF member confused2


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8423299 10/19/21 12:29 PM
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I don't think a mason could have laid this naturally occurring wall as straight as how we found it.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: panch0] #8428630 10/24/21 11:24 PM
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Found this in the south Texas brush while looking for sheds.
No idea what it is. [Linked Image]

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Originally Posted by GOATBOY
Found this in the south Texas brush while looking for sheds.
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Any ideas or thoughts on how or why a Canon ball ended up in the woods
Of southern Atascosa County? I can't imagine any reason myself.

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Originally Posted by GOATBOY
Any ideas or thoughts on how or why a Canon ball ended up in the woods
Of southern Atascosa County? I can't imagine any reason myself.



What town is it near?

I’ll bet ole Santa Anna may have been involved

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Any ideas or thoughts on how or why a Canon ball ended up in the woods
Of southern Atascosa County? I can't imagine any reason myself.



What town is it near?

I’ll bet ole Santa Anna may have been involved


Pretty good thought procraft05. Good find GOATBOY.

Edited to add:
That might be ~2" shot too.

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