Finds in the bush

I've found many of the items already mentioned. I will add, that I like hunting in areas that have old cars or trucks deep in the woods from wayyyyy back. They make excellent reference points in the woods. As an example, my hunting spot this year is by the old car body. My hunting partners know exactly where I will be when I say that.

My dad found this sword in a tree many years ago.

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If anyone finds a solid gold Longines with an inscription dated 1948, give me a shout.
 
We found four cases of 80% CIL dynamite and went back and "lit it up" so it wouldn't be a danger to anyone. Made a big "bang"
 
John Y Cannuck said:
If you find a gut pile, look around. Fair to good chance you'll find a knife stuck in the ground, or buried in the leaves.
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That's OK for you to say that in Ontario. But in BC there is far more chance of seeing a grizzzly bear at the gut pile than there is a knife!
And a grizzly bear gets his dander up real fast, if anything is messing around with the food supply he laid claim to.
 
- Complete Fishing rod
- Filet Knife
- Digital Camera (albeit at the bottom of the lake...card still worked...not the camera)
- Old logging equipment (harnesses, horseshoes, boilers, gears etc.)
- Old boats
- Old camps
- Lots of garbage...some huners are real pigs!!
 
We found a old triumph in a dump,it was in great shape until about 100 shot gun rounds changed the look.
After we left it occurred to us that it was probably stolen and was hid there to let it cool off before it was to be moved.
 
3 fishing rods/reels and a tackle box along a lake shoreline one time.
some skulls from small animals
some old rusted traps
once found a 3 axle float with trees growing up through the deck and completely surrounding it
enough tires and parts to start a wrecking yard
canoes
cedarstrip boat rotted right to the ground
lots of ammo casings
moose and deer hides
a few sheds including one real fresh one, was headed into the bush to load tree-length spruce and two moose were standing on the road, one bull one cow, they turned to run and the right side antler flew off the bull when he spun around to run. I got out and picked it up, was big, could barely get it into the cab on the passenger seat, won't ever forget that!

and an abandoned airstrip in the middle of nowhere that turned out was used to hide fighter planes during the second world war from what local history buffs tell me, you can drive to it so maybe wasnt such a big find!! LOL
 
heavyBullet said:
I've found many of the items already mentioned. I will add, that I like hunting in areas that have old cars or trucks deep in the woods from wayyyyy back. They make excellent reference points in the woods. As an example, my hunting spot this year is by the old car body. My hunting partners know exactly where I will be when I say that.

My dad found this sword in a tree many years ago.

Enfieldsword001.jpg
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Your Dads name isn't Arthur by chance, is it?:D
Any history in the sword?
 
I found a bran new come along in a garbage bag way back on an ATV trail. A knife, sheds, cabins. The one cabin was right at the head of a creek. Must have been 3' of snow when made as the stumps around it were that big. I wish I had a metal detector for that one. It was collapsed.
 
I have found counless small metal objects, antlers, bones, the coolest thing was a empty turtle shell which was just over a foot long, still have it.
 
Last week I found where the locals like to dump their cars. There was about 20 wrecks down this old washed out trail. Some of them were cars from the 50's right up to the 90's.
 
several cars at different times ( one had been stolen) - never sure how they got there, - old covered up mine shaft, usual assortment of skidder tires and chainsaw oil cans

not in the bush but an apartment building I lived in on the Danforth in Toronto once had a stolen car boneyard in the third level undergroud parking area. - nobody ever parked or went down there, so the thieves would follow a tenant down into them parking area, keep going down to the bottom level and then strip the cars at their leisure. once or twice a year they would tow maybe 20 or thirty hulks out of there.
 
H4831 said:
That's OK for you to say that in Ontario. But in BC there is far more chance of seeing a grizzzly bear at the gut pile than there is a knife!
And a grizzly bear gets his dander up real fast, if anything is messing around with the food supply he laid claim to.
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Gut piles in my area rarely make it through one night. Coyotes, wolves, ravens and black bears will clean it up fast.
Chances are that if you find one, it's less than 24 hrs old.
 
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