Finds in the bush

There were three different hunters from different gangs on St Joe Island, ONT this year that all told the MNR they saw a cougar during the rifle season. Coincidence? I think not.
 
eastwind said:
First I ever heard of "coyotes denning in the winter" in my 40 years of hunting. I always thought they were free ranging looking for their next meal.
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ya they do den. You can find them sometimes, usually on a side slope near natural water. little bigger than a human head size hole. I have found them in both summer and winter both active.


I think animal bones are the most often thing i come across. I found a garbage bag full of old playboys once.
 
I found this near Squamish. It wasn't near any roads and was across the river. Pretty neat! Not sure if you can see it but the eyelids are inlaid with copper.
Whoever made it had a lot of skill.


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This takes place in The Northwest Territories. In 1970 I'm a 10 year old kid and my Dad buys a new Arctic Cat Panther 399. He and a bunch of his buddies want to go ice fishing at a little lake called Sandy Lake, about 7 miles off the highway to Fort Smith. There is no road in, only a cut line. So we all snomobile in and proceed to ice fish. Up on the shore one of the guys finds an old water ski. It was home made, very well done, out of plywood. It was quite old and weathered. I would guess it had been there since at least the mid '60's.
 
I don't think it's for a martin trap set. Squirrels are the main food of martins and of course, squirrels live in coniferous forests, rather than a poplar bush. Also, it is too small for a trap.
Since there is a nest in it, it may have been put up as a bird house. It's securely fastened and tips down enough that rain water would run out. I would guess it has only been there for two or three years, as those trees grow fast.
 
I have found two entire whitetail bucks, locked together, only skeletons left. Another upper body skeleton of a large buck stuck in a fence line. A 12ga Remington 870 shotgun. The usual ancient cars and tree-stands. I once found an old cabin that had mostly fallen in, but there was a warm corner out of the wind that was just enough for lunch break.
I, too, have not ever found a shed antler in all my travels.
I have also found a few lighters, a boy scout pocket knife (back when I was a boy scout), several leg hold traps, and a couple of abandoned improvised shelters.
 
We found a tiny, perfect, camo hunting cabin hidden in the bush in northern Ontario. We had paddled and hiked a long way from anywhere. No roads. No trails. We didn't see it until we almost bumped into it. Very impressive.
 
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Having read this entire thread, I am struck by the number of people who carry crap into the bush and leave it there. I am also always shocked by the mentality that says we should shoot it!! I have come across many things that were shot up, simply because they were there? That's pretty infantile, IMO. That's the same mentality that taggers and vandals have. Aren't we better than that?
Also, there are things "lost" that the owners intend to come back for and we have simply taken them? And kept them? I have left everything I have found in the woods for a decent period of time before I went back to check and see if they were still there. If so, then I would pick it up. I'd be pissed if a knife fell out of my belt when I was taking a dump, retraced my trail once I'd realized where I might have lost it, come back to find it gone and someone else's tracks all over the place. Might be tempted to track them...
 
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