Finds in the bush

trevj said:
Antler sheds, a couple old cars that you would never have thought could have reached where they were. You know, the usual stuff.
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Same here. There's one on the opposite side of the lake at my cottage. Must have been driven about a KM across the ice and either left on the shore to rust out....or went through the ice nearer that end and was dragged up on those after the fact. There are no roads on that side of the lake. Car is barely recogniseable now, but looks like probably a 50s or 60s style.

A few more in the woods on my own side of the lake, where there's an inexplicable, informal dump a few hundred meters from the road. Old cars, pop cans, general garbage from a half century ago. Very close to my cottage there is an old, simple grave and a newer plaque....the former of which spawned some half-serious local ghost myths, depending who you talk to.
 
I found a set of binoculars. They had been there for at least a few years, as the metal skin was rusted, and the inside was filled with mold and moisture. The bag also contained a set of local grid maps in zip-lock bags, but they had not been sealed and were water damaged as well.

I also found a dozen old wine bottles, with a diamond patter on them, from the "London Winery". I took them home and cleaned them up, and I want to get some corks and fill them with oil and herbs. An old Pepsi bottle, with the swirls in the glass, and some old Coke bottles (small with the green glass).

Also the back end of an old "Hillman" car, which I believe is British. It was really rusted, but I managed to get the license plate holder, which says Hillman and has a place for a light. The chrome is in not too bad a condition, so I may clean it up, add my own plates and put a light in, for hanging on the rec room wall.
 
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A shirt, knife sharpener, a prospectors hammer, parachute, one mitt, moose and caribou antlers, a beat up .22. But the best thing I have found is the sound the wind makes when it blows through a birch, the smell of the earth after a big rain, and the sound of a ruffed grouse beating his wings.
 
95% of all the crown land up here is registered trapline, so it is not unusual to find stuff like old traps hanging in trees, chainsaws wrapped up and left under a log, boats, canoes, etc, by lakes.
If you find these things, please leave them as they were, some body owns them and will return for them.

however that being said, I have found knives on trails, screw drivers and wrenches, gas cans floating in the river, etc.
I knew whose line they were on and returned them, and the gas can had an address on it.
found a big ol' saw blade once as well, from a mill long since out of business.
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I can't believe I read the whole thread! Great stuff!

Under a juniper bush I found an infant blanket that was "bulging" with something obviously inside. Hair on the back of my neck stood straight up! There were a few things like a little doll right beside it so I debated whether to call police or not. Decided I better look myself first. It was a teddy bear wrapped in the infant's blanket. Thank God !! Still a strange thing to find though.
 
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cars left in 1975

In February of 2010, I was following some coyote tracks hoping to find thier wintering den, and I came across these two vehicles. One of them still had a plate on it dated 1975.

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I found a rusted old tin bucket filled to the brim with coal bricks. I burned one in the camp fire - it smelled like burning tires! Can you imagine heating your kitchen with burning tires?
 
ikedaboy said:
One thing I will never forget, the remains of a human skeleton laying at the base of a tree with a bullet exit hole in the top of the skull and an OLD rusted to hell 9mm (I think) HG lying in the debris with the skeleton. It appeared to have been there a very long time. I didn't hang around to investigate further.
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I never find anything but I did follow a trai of garbage/coffee cups to the remanders of a grow a few weeks ago =D
 
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