Finds in the bush

Last summer my grandfather found 2 meteorites when walking through a newly purchased lot. And yes they were real meteorite, a cousin who is a geologist had a look at them. These things were twice as heavy as they looked, extremely dense. I myself have not found anything good in the bush, just old oil drums, logging equipment, but working as a ride mechanic at Wonderland i have found all kinds of great stuff under the rides. oakley sunglasses, digital cameras, wallets, hats, loose change, but all is returned whenever possible.
 
LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1 said:
Are you sure its a Lancaster? Their are only 2 (or 3?) Lancaster bombers is reasonable condition left in Canada. One is airworthy, and the other is close. If you really did find a Lancaster, and their is still most of the parts, then these museums will be VERY interested in it. Although chances are looter have already taken their fill. And I want to see pics when you do go.
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I Haven't seen it myself YET! A nurse I work with saw it on some media source and was able to get gps co-ordinates. She said when she tried looking it up on the net the co-ordinates were already removed. Form what she gave me it is in Ridding mountain national park in Manitoba. I might buy a pass this summer and check it out.
As for the other Lancaster you mentioned, I got to see it last year. It landed in Winnipeg for three days. I got to see it land. Very amazing piece of history!
 
I have found everything , 50+year old booze bottles, huge sheds (muledeer, whitetail, moose, etc), wagon wheels, old homesteads (some of those old sod houses have the sandstone foundations still there and even the odd root cellar isn't filled in), i still think the best is the random boot out in the middle of the prairies with no sign of tire tracks within a half mile, must have been a long walk back to his vehicle through jumping/pin cushion cactus country! haha
 
I can only recall one weird thing I found in the middle of the sticks, and that was a pair of baseball cleats. They were tied together and laying on the ground by a tree. All I could figure was that someone used them to help with footing on slippery ground while hiking (but they would have been a real nuisance walking on rocks).
 
Sorry for the delay..

This was close to my home wich is located in the Dundas valley area(close too Hamilton)

I walk these woods every Sunday all through the winter after hunting season closes.This particular day in Feburary I was following some deer tracks and one of the deer kept laying down.
I thought she was injured in some way or another but would not of guessed what was wrong.
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look NUTS

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I took it home and placed it in a baggie and put it in the freezer.Monday morning I contacted the MNR and asked if they would be interested and they were.

now aparantly if there is winter stress the doe would most likely re absorb the fetus,,miscarriage is a sign of Brucelosis,in humans it's called undulant fever.

The folks at the MNR said they would keep me in the loop but I only got the preliminary pathology report.

the gestation was 86 days and every thing else appeared normal on the outside.I tried a few times too follow up but too no avail.

John
 
2 leathermans. A few fishing rods. One which was still attached to a huge salmon. Came down the river in a jet boat while dropping clients off and a group of guys that got helicoptered in to fish the river for a week, well, one of the guys hooked into the salmon, lost his footing and dropped his Spey rod. Which then dissapeared into the river. I came down in the boat about 45 min later and saw the fluorscent green line. I then grabbed my fly rod and reeled the fly to the tip and used the hook to grab the line. As I was doing so, the guy that lost the rod came over to the bank and was thanking me for attempting to get it back. I got the line, then drifted down the river a bit more to the rod and reel. Grabbed it, loosened off the drag, had one of he clients reel in the line as we went back up the river and handed it off to the owner. He then continued to fight the salmon. We stayed till he landed it. Still to this day, the biggest chinook I've ever seen landed. Well over 50lbs. Later on that night, I went back down with another guide and had a few beers with them. Great guys!

Also found a 12ft aluminum boat in the middle of a meadow in the middle of bf-no-where up north. Thought we were gonna find a body under it but found nothing. Packed it out, painted it And still use it!
 
I have found a 12 foot aluminum boat stranded in a tree along our river here. The neatest find aside from old farm trinkets, was a dead raccoon with his head stuck in a hole of a tree.
 
Oddest thing so far were garbage bags containing the printing plates for the Kenora Daily Miner literally in the middle of the bush near French Narrows on Lake of the Woods.
 
bwery said:
I Haven't seen it myself YET! A nurse I work with saw it on some media source and was able to get gps co-ordinates. She said when she tried looking it up on the net the co-ordinates were already removed. Form what she gave me it is in Ridding mountain national park in Manitoba. I might buy a pass this summer and check it out.
As for the other Lancaster you mentioned, I got to see it last year. It landed in Winnipeg for three days. I got to see it land. Very amazing piece of history!
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There is also a Lancaster that crashed south of Tofino, BC in Pacific Rim National Park.
 
Found a nice cabin open for public use, clean and tidy with lamps, food, firewood and everything last year.
It's just a few minutes off a busy old logging road too, but most people just drive right by.

The owners don't advertise that it's there though.

I found another hidden one years ago and just last fall met the guys who built it. They started talking about their secret cabin and said "Oh, you mean the one at Shutyermouth Creek?"

They were surprised as hell that I knew about it.
 
Unfortunately, not everything "found" has actually been lost or forgotten. My brother and I have had things disappear that were purposely left for our future use on our trapline, or in places where we regularly hunt or fish. Three trail cams, and a 16' canoe come immediately to mind. Aside from the regular finds of hunting gear, old vehicles, utensils and the like, our most unusual find was a live, banded pigeon. It was walking in the bush, and was quite content to allow us to pick it up and transport it in our vehicle the 30 or so miles back to town. Don't recall exactly how it happenned, but it was eventually returned to its owner.
 
Lots of abandoned climbing gear from when people have bailed on routes. A swamp boat in the back 40 under water with the prop still there. Boats washed up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Old logging and mining camps from my 4x4 days and other assorted stuff. This was the best though...

Out on the West Coast by Radar hill;)
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