Finds in the bush
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Let me guess, you live in NB, near cfb Oromocto. How close am I? Actually, it was the black bear that gave it away.Saw these 2 things in the same day
About 7 years ago I found an old horse drawn dump cart in the middle of the woods with no farms for miles. There was two huge wagon wheels on it and it looked like one failed and they just left the cart when it did. Like an idiot I removed the two old rotten wheels and dragged them a mile or so to my truck. I did manage to make one good wheel out of the two and now it sits in a rock garden at the top of the drive way.
angrysoldier
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- under your bed
mark 82 dummies filled with concrete. nice find. there is also snake eye retarded fins and the ballote type retarded devices also. all of this stuff is for low level dropping. what base was there. very odd you find this stuff laying around wish i found it.
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hunter7mmRM
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern Alberta
Found this on a gas line waaaay back in the bush last week. Let me know if you need the number, it's for sale.
hey i want that thing. was there a price listed? cause if i can correct, that truck is a 6x6
hunter7mmRM
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern Alberta
hey are those my binos???
hunter7mmRM
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern Alberta
while hunting with a buddy of mine, he (we) found a 7mm Rem Mag empty as we were walking down a steep game trail that has been used by humans twice for sure. it was cool as i also shoot a 7mag.
Cranky Pants
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Lots of good stuff found in this thread. The more I read, I remembered stuff I found over the years.
Old Bear trap, with the jaws and teeth on the inside
Old stone firepit in the middle of nowhere, about a foot of moss, roots in it. An old local guy said "the old people used to cut hoop poles back there"
A friend found an arrowhead on a portage with me
A kids rubber ball a km away from any cottage, coyotes drug it away I figure.
A rock with 2 lizard fossils in a row, I went back a year later but it was gone.
I have probably forgotton the best stuff.
Old Bear trap, with the jaws and teeth on the inside
Old stone firepit in the middle of nowhere, about a foot of moss, roots in it. An old local guy said "the old people used to cut hoop poles back there"
A friend found an arrowhead on a portage with me
A kids rubber ball a km away from any cottage, coyotes drug it away I figure.
A rock with 2 lizard fossils in a row, I went back a year later but it was gone.
I have probably forgotton the best stuff.
TransAm1991
Regular
- Location
- Windsor, Ontario
Great read this thread, and the old one..
I don't have any amazing stories..
But when they first opened the greenway trail, I found a ton of old bottles at the edge of a field, blue milk of magnesia bottles, old wine bottles.. Pretty neat, probably from when it was an old railway line..
On the same trail, I went into a drainage tunnel under where the train tracks would have been and found a watch, had a jewelers number on it, so we thought it was stolen, it didn't work and was in the mud for a while..
I don't have any amazing stories..
But when they first opened the greenway trail, I found a ton of old bottles at the edge of a field, blue milk of magnesia bottles, old wine bottles.. Pretty neat, probably from when it was an old railway line..
On the same trail, I went into a drainage tunnel under where the train tracks would have been and found a watch, had a jewelers number on it, so we thought it was stolen, it didn't work and was in the mud for a while..
Once on a fishing trip at an outfitters place, I got to my assigned boat and it was FULL of garbage like beer bottles and empty cigarette boxes and a fenwick fishing rod with a miss-matching upper section from a fly rod. It looked like someone had just been using the boat minutes before we arrived. So I collected all the garbage and kept the rod. But while out on the water (on a tiny pike lake) many large caliber shots were fired near where we had parked the car and left shore. Theres no big game hunting at the same time as fishing in Quebec so I thought something was very fishy. So no need to tell you that we stayed extra long out on the water even if it was pouring rain. 3-4hrs later and we get ashore and theres this really old 1970 chevy van with two indians in it doing god knows what...I think they were pissed that I had taken their ghetto fishing rod and were trying to scare us but I just waved and they didn't say anything. I still have the rod, hoping to one day find a better tip section for it. This maybe controversial to some people, but I still keep it as a reminder that it's not because your Indian that you automatically respect the environment, sadly enough, and as a reminder that you never know who you might come across in the bush.
- Location
- Golden Lake
In the 1950's my folks had a cottage and 100 acre bush lot north of Parry Sound. The bush was well grown up but one day grouse hunting way back I found an old spike harrow that the bush had all grown up around. Found several old home sites with axe heads, pots. bottles. The remains of an old mica mine.
In the 70's I lived in Sault Ste. Marie and way back in the bush I found an old peavey.
In the 80's I owned property back in the hills above Shawville, Que. It was all forested but everywhere you went there were the ruins of old homesteads. Lots of old bottles, etc. At one place there were 100's of old leather shoes/boots. I found a fancy Browning arrowhead sticking in a beech tree. Several old, rusty traps.
I used to hunt the Marlborough Forest south of Ottawa. Used to find many stolen/chopped cars & trucks. At one place in the Forest there was what looked like the back of a cement mixer truck. Could never figure that out until one day a Canadian Forces helicopter came over and they started to play around lifting and dropping it. I later found out that the JTF2 boys had a base just a few kms. away.
The only useful thing I found was a really good quality German-made knife in a leather sheath. The antler handle had rotted away and the sheath was shot but the blade was still good.
My wife found the barrel of a single shot .22 in the Ottawa River.
I stumbled on a grow op in the Larose Forest east of Ottawa.
Lots of shed antlers. Once I found the complete skeleton of a huge buck. The antlers were badly chewed up but they were still huge.
In the 70's I lived in Sault Ste. Marie and way back in the bush I found an old peavey.
In the 80's I owned property back in the hills above Shawville, Que. It was all forested but everywhere you went there were the ruins of old homesteads. Lots of old bottles, etc. At one place there were 100's of old leather shoes/boots. I found a fancy Browning arrowhead sticking in a beech tree. Several old, rusty traps.
I used to hunt the Marlborough Forest south of Ottawa. Used to find many stolen/chopped cars & trucks. At one place in the Forest there was what looked like the back of a cement mixer truck. Could never figure that out until one day a Canadian Forces helicopter came over and they started to play around lifting and dropping it. I later found out that the JTF2 boys had a base just a few kms. away.
The only useful thing I found was a really good quality German-made knife in a leather sheath. The antler handle had rotted away and the sheath was shot but the blade was still good.
My wife found the barrel of a single shot .22 in the Ottawa River.
I stumbled on a grow op in the Larose Forest east of Ottawa.
Lots of shed antlers. Once I found the complete skeleton of a huge buck. The antlers were badly chewed up but they were still huge.
