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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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Anyone found anything interesting in the bush ??
Dimitri
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mc223 Member
Joined: Apr 02, 2006 Posts: 115 Location: S/E Kansas
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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I found a lock and hammer, part of a rusted barrel and several cannon balls, while rabbit hunting on the old battle site of Quantril's massacre at Baxter Springs, Kansas. I owned the property adjacent to the site on the west bank of Spring River, in Southeast Ks.
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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:55 am Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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Found some arrowheads, a stone hatchet, old cemeteries and abandoned cabins and vehicles while out hunting. All the best...
Gil
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Spacedone Member
Joined: Nov 04, 2005 Posts: 266 Location: missouri
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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i was 11 deer hunting. i came across a old old rock pile full of indian stuff. hammers, spear heads, broken pottery. apparently the farmer in the past cleaned up a village spot on his property and piled all the stuff in one rock pile. climbing over the river bluff i found 3 cheifs graves hidden in a small grove of native pines. the graves are covered with rock and predate 1825 i know because my family settled there in 1826 and gramps says the graves were always there.
gigging one night i found a 14 ft johnboad with trolling motor in 14 feet of water sunk to the bottom.
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3571 Location: Utah
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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A cocked & rusted out .44 cartridge based pistol.
-DallanC
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longwalker Member
Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 201 Location: Bethel, AK
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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IN Pennsylvinia, I found a whole suit case of confederate money. in a junk pile in the woods. I was young enough and the money rotted enough that we played with it for several days. My Dad got wind of it and promptly took charge of the find. He made some money on it and we had our play money. In South Dakota, I've found fossils, petrifide wood and a nice pair of binoculars.
One thing we have to be watchful of is "new" to the suroundings building and trailers. The meth heads have moved in. Most on the reservations but you still need to be mindful of where you are and what you are doing.
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popgun Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 735 Location: Mitchell, GA, U.S.A. (2007 pop. 191)
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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I look for more than tracks and droppings when hunting and scouting at the hunting club. I find allot of indian points and pottery shards. Our hunting club is on the Ogeechee River which is one of the many watersheds that the Creek Indians inhabited in Georgia. I have found some points that predate the creeks and there is not a great deal of knowledge about these indians. There were mound builders and others before.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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SwampFox Super Member
Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 1040 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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Interesting post, this. Let's see,
In NW Florida I found an undamaged large animal arrowhead (almost speer head size) laying on top of the ground, about 300 years old, some pottery, etc. In NH I found cabin foundations, trash piles with hand blown glass bottles & a family's grave markers under the leaves dating back to the 1700s with inscriptions that read; "Killed by Indians" on all the headstones. Found a rusted up 12 ga sawed off shotgun that I destroyed. Found an old Case green bone handled knife stuck in a tree. Still have the knife. Found a commercial K-Bar hunting knife and sheath, laying on the ground. Found a sunken wood boat on the shore of a salt water inlet, it had something yellow in the mud on the bottom, was a Puma skinner.
The talk about watching out where you walk, it is true. About 3 years ago, my buddy and I were going through the woods to our stands one morning when I heard him start hollering for me to watch out and be carful. He was about 300 yards away, across a wet bottom. He had just found a 12 ga, 870 tied to a tree, with a trip wire across a deer trail. The 870 was loaded with 00, safety off. Luckly he saw the gun before he got to the wire. We figure some mental midget decided that was a good way to hunt deer.......
Ed
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ripper007 Member
Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 199 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Most interesting finds while hunting/Fishing |
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alot of the same old stuff found here, arrow heads, old potery, iron stoves. knives, nets. and stuff like that. nothing out of the ordinary.
a good friend of mine was out fishing at a place he usualy goes duck hunting. he found a dead woman in the water. that was not a good thing.
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