Whats the coolest thing you've found in the woods?

Last year they drained a lake near our houses. He took his son out for a few hours and that's what they found. He has tons of those things.

 

Saw another hunter walk right under my tree stand, never saw me and proceeded to take a dump. He literally dropped his pants 5 feet from my tree and when he went he didn't pull his pants all the way forward and went directly in his pants. He didn't realize it till he pulled them up and was yelling the whole way back the way he came "what the f***" and you have got to be sh***** me. Not the best thing to find or see in the woods but goes for a good story!!!!

 

Found these today while out checking trail cams, The first piece is a splitting mall from the wood mill that was founded on my land in 1850 all the items are from the same small field.

 

Way back in the woods one day I found a tunnel that went horizontally under the base of a very large rock outcrop. It was covered with a big flat rock that looked out of place, which is what caught my eye. The tunnel looked like it was just big enough for a skinny guy like me to squirm into like a snake. Finally one day I got brave, and in I went head first, flashlight in one hand and gun in the other of course! After about 15' it opened up a bit and there was a 5' drop off. Down I went. I was surprised to find a "room" down there, about 10'x15'x4' high, all rock. In there was a really old compound bow, a metal tackle box full of old hunting stuff, a sleeping bag, a pair of boots, and some clothes. Someone years ago obviously used it as a place to spend the night when hunting. What a cool place to hunt from! I left everything as it was out of respect for the guy whose hideout it was.

 

i found a full horse skeleton in the woods about 80 yards from my stand, the skull was giant!

 

I found an old horse shoe one day. it was pretty neat. this thread it awesome.

 

i have found a bunch of carbon arrows. many of which being mine.

 

That's weird....any idea where it came from?

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while scouting this past late winter early spring, I found a small hammer with several iron rods..and some surveyors tape on a stump. it must have been there at least 20 years from when the original owner had it subdivided from a larger piece.

2 years ago on public land I found a sweet honey hole buck heaven spot. saw the perfect hemlock, climbed it..saw where someone had put a stand up years ago cause some branches were cut. hung my stand there, opening morning I climb up pull my bow up sit down and hang my bow up....then I realized....I hadn't put up a bow hanger yet. turns out it was my dads spot from 10 years ago where he shot a big ol 9 pointer from, and could never find the spot again!!

also saw my first ever purchased hang on treestand still in the same tree I had left it 20 years prior....lol I really need to get a picture of that! the tree has totally grown around it. I was 16 and new everything, my dad told me to get the stand down at the end of the year...I never did cause I was going to get it when I was scouting that spring. that winter I discovered how much of a sucker I am for blondes and didn't return to that stand for 20 years....lol

I also love finding old homemade stands from the 80's and late 70's. most are rotted away, but some still remain. my hotspot public land has tons of them.

 

Old homestead sights, some still had the old water well there!

 

I found in a empty farm house basement that I hunt there were newspapers for the 1920's. There are almost in perfect conditions for being in the elements for 30 years or more. It is amazing how much they were selling shotguns back then.

 

those newspapers must be really interesting.

 

I found my grandpas reciept for his 1964 winchester lever action .30-30- it was like 67 bucks!! Crazy how the value of money has gone up.

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wow thats crazy!!

 

That is awesome. You should go back and take some pics. Maybe a squater lived down there.

 

Yeah that's pretty neat. I would leave a note wishing him luck in case the hunter decides to return to his hide out one day.

 

It was so neat to find a place like that. No one has been in there in a really long time, the stuff is at least 30 years old. The bowstring was dried up and broken. I have pics of the opening on my phone but don't know how to transfer them to a computer, I'm technologically challenged. I'll go back with a good flashlight and a camera someday and snoop around some more and take real pictures.

 

We always go near all these old underground mining tunnels, but we always forget to bring the oxygen tester to see if there's any oxygen to breathe down there. It's cool to see though, this is a great thread.

 

I found an old trapper's storage cave that was 100 feet above the creek and had a wooden door on it. Very old and rough. There were some willow stretchers for beaver hides still hanging off a piece of wire. The place sold and they don't allow hunting or fishing even for family or hired hands. I also found an old box car that had somehow been hauled up into a rock rim that was a mile (at least) from a railroad track. You could see about 300 degrees around you from the front door and it blended into the rocks really well. I found it while glassing for mule deer. There were a few old, broken, glass plates and wire box springs inside. Found a hide scraper at the base of a buffalo jump on my friend's place. So many arrowheads and scrapers in the area it's ridiculous.

 

We were mushroom hunting this spring and as we were heading back to the truck I was crossing a blown down looked down the trunk and a baby owl was staring at me.wish I could figure how to upload pictures from my phone