Finds in the bush

My best find last year was both antlers from a 12 point whitetail, about 50 metres apart, extra extra lucky and right in the middle of swamp where I did not actually intend to end up. Missed by the pro antler collectors and only very very slightly gnawed by mice or porkies. Some of the points were splintered too, so the original owner'd been doing some scrapping.

But why are so many firearms being left leaning against trees, etc, out in the woods? Is this a scenario where the hunter gets lost, panics, and puts the gun down to better run around in circles? Or what I wonder?
 
Forgot, I found a well-concealed campsite in the late fall of last year, relatively close to a city, only spotted it because it had a space blanket rigged up tent-like, low overhead. It was only days old but hadn't been visited for at least 48 hours. Two possible scenarios for this: someone practicing general survival skills who didn't care about messing up the environment by leaving the blanket, in which case the mylar was intended as a rain cover. Or, this was a training site for future terrorist/ Mideast fighter types, who learn to rig up space blankets like that to avoid IR detection from overhead. Both things are equally possible I'm afraid.
 
...1990...hunting moose...dropped off by CN up north...several portages to make camp...several lakes farther in...found a canvas canoe on a rack all hemmed in by big trees with a spruce sapling growing through it and weathered kit neatly stacked all over the place...some trapper's stash who's long-gone...left it all there...sorta like a memorial i felt it was...
 
Last year I found remnants of a hunting camp. Empty propane tanks, plastic cutlery and other assorted garbage left lying around everywhere, ripped up tarp, ect. The thing that really gets me is that I know who left it, and his wife works for Sustainable Resource Development. I really want to collect everything and dump it on their front lawn.
 
Hhhmm, let's see...

The family cottage is located in an old mining village abandoned in the 40s. Our cabin was one of the last remaining log cabin "houses" built by the families of mine workers. unfortunately a forest fire in the early 80s destroyed that cabin but we rebuilt the following year.

Anyhow, over the years I have found old traps (one had a complete mink skeleton lying besiude it), tarps, fishing rods, swede saws, cheap swiss army knives, mining Equipment from the 30s, tons of old bottles, cans, a shack made with old metal cyanide cans cut open and flattened to make shingles and siding.

Best of all was the old Jon boat I found abandoned on the lake one spring. I brought it into town, had the leaks welded and I still use it to this day !!
 
Stone footprint of a few very old homsteds, apparently belonging to the early Irish-British settlers in the area. Now all reclaimed by the woods and ponds. Every time I stop by one of them, I feel sorry for those poor people who came here for the promise of free land and didn't make it. Must have been a very hard life.
 
Cool moose shed that looked like a club with random points, some fossils, a fully stocked tackle box, creepy as hell dream catcher like charms hanging from trees way out in the bush, lots of cars and trash, lots of old logging equipment, a note declaring someone had #### there in 98. but usually all I find is just peace and quite.
 
Couple of years ago was scouting for deer season found a door off the fresh water system on an aircraft. Was trying to figure out what type of plane it came off of. Must have been moving pretty good when it hit the ground....
 
Found an old Iver Johnson shotgun that was badly rusted under a rotten log way back in the bush of Northern Ontario near the Gogama area.
The guy must have used the log to sit and eat his lunch or as a seat to take a shyt and walked away from the gun.
Those guns weren't much when they were brand new so I left it there.
It was rusted out and unshootable. Essentially scrap iron.
 
Gunoholic said:
Found an old Iver Johnson shotgun that was badly rusted under a rotten log way back in the bush of Northern Ontario near the Gogama area.
The guy must have used the log to sit and eat his lunch or as a seat to take a shyt and walked away from the gun.
Those guns weren't much when they were brand new so I left it there.
It was rusted out and unshootable. Essentially scrap iron.
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I hunted moose around Gogama back in the 80's, but I definetely was not the owner that shotgun. A buddy did find a totally rusted .303 Enfield once. Maybe we should start a thread on "things we've lost while hunting". I lost a light hunting jacket with a spare DM mag for my Remington 7m/m plus several elk calls in the pockets while crossing the Kakwa river several years ago.
 
bearkilr said:
Found a Honda 3-wheeler a few years back. Phoned in the serial number, Police said nothing came up.......finders keepers!! :)

A couple of knives, treestand, bigfoot prints.....the usual stuff.
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I knew they'd be out there! Cool find! I have found a lot of things, as I spend a lot of time in the forest trails, but need some time to go back in time and memory to come up with the significant finds. One thing recent was a tossed out BBQ unit that had the hose assembly and gadget that my oldest son needs to make a homemade gadget to charge my Jimmy's A/C system with propane for my dog cruises in the forest trails on hot summer days. Awesome!
 
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Home3 said:
Stone footprint of a few very old homsteds, apparently belonging to the early Irish-British settlers in the area. Now all reclaimed by the woods and ponds. Every time I stop by one of them, I feel sorry for those poor people who came here for the promise of free land and didn't make it. Must have been a very hard life.
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What makes you think they didn't make it? Maybe moved on to a better place or a newer bigger house.
 
hey, if anyone is hunting up in the windy mountain valley bottom in BC region 5-1 and you find a pair of high end steiner binoculars...... keep em, I lost em about 10 years ago when I was chasin a buck for a kill shot..... heck they might even work still LOL
 
Great thread!

One of my best finds to date was when I was 13 years old - found an intact headlight lens off of a really old Ford. A few years later I showed it to a guy who restored Fords and he looked it up for me based on the numbers around the edge of the glass - apparently it came off a 1926 Model A. Still have it.

Edit - I must be remembering wrong, since the Model A was introduced in 1928. From google images the lens is from either a '28 or a '29.
 
Once found an un-exploded naval man overboard flare on one of the gulf islands. One time while working as an archaeologist I witnessed a shovel test that contained shag carpeting, a pair of aviators, broken bottle, and the remains of some spent shotgun shells, groovy times.
 
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