What was your most exciting find while hunting?

I live on the same property that my dad grew up on. About 8 years ago I was walking down a bit of a bank in the bush behind my house, slipped on a bit of moss and landed on my ass and started to slide down the hill. Dug my heels into the ground to stop me and I ended up digging up an old hacksaw. Brought it home and my dad said that it was his brothers saw from when they were kids. He said they used to have a tree-fort right in that same area. So that saw was in the ground for about 45 years.

I thought it was pretty neat.


Found a bowling ball in the middle of the bush way up north near Wawa moose hunting one year. Someone must of dropped it from a plane, or outerspace, because you would have to be completely nuts to drag that thing up in the middle of the bush. LOL
 
Wasn't hunting but when I was about 14 or so a buddy and I found and old trunk next to a fence on an old woods road, it was filled to the brim with small plastic bags filled with white powder, I didn't have any idea what it was at the time but my buddy who was a few years older knew enough to say let's leave this alone and get the heck out of there.
 
I was hunting lost cows once in the Edgerton Alberta area and went up a old road allowance to check for them. On the highest point of the trail I stopped to look around and spotted a new plastic pail in the grass beside the trail. It was heavy so opened it and it was full of ### ####o mags. Along the main road close by I was allways finding the same kind of mags also. Allways wondered just what sort of neighbours I had around me there.
 
Interesting thread! I found a walkie talkie hanging from a branch. The next week my neighbour told me he had lost one and to keep my eye out, he was surprised when I told him I had found it and it still worked.
 
the fact that my brand new 400 $ game cam had been stolen by some grouse hunter on opening day..................:(
 
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Once found a shed antler with a trapping snare entangled on it. A folding buck knife on a river bank. A Spot gps tracker unit on a road (it got back to the owner). Two 14" crescent wrenches together. Lots of sheds.
 
When we were kids we found a bunch of weed wrapped up in diapers and packing tape, I was too young to even understand the concept of recreational drugs but my brother got us to skedaddle.
My house growing up was a really old farmhouse my dad fixed up, he found a lot of old tools digging up the garden, I was given a really old double bit axe that cleaned up really nice with some sandblasting and angle grinding.
 
Raton57 said:
I was hunting lost cows once in the Edgerton Alberta area and went up a old road allowance to check for them. On the highest point of the trail I stopped to look around and spotted a new plastic pail in the grass beside the trail. It was heavy so opened it and it was full of ### ####o mags. Along the main road close by I was allways finding the same kind of mags also. Allways wondered just what sort of neighbours I had around me there.
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Gross!!
 
A moose during moose season when I had a moose tag! Called it in to about 60' and shot it in the face with a .375 H+H, it was very exciting!
 
Raton57 said:
I was hunting lost cows once in the Edgerton Alberta area and went up a old road allowance to check for them. On the highest point of the trail I stopped to look around and spotted a new plastic pail in the grass beside the trail. It was heavy so opened it and it was full of ### ####o mags. Along the main road close by I was allways finding the same kind of mags also. Allways wondered just what sort of neighbours I had around me there.
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But it appears from your post that you keep going back there.....they are baiting you...........Careful do not turn your back or you may find one up the backdoor..............LOL
 
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About 6 years ago I was hunting whitetail deer in the Slave Lake, Alberta area in a remote section. While on a deer trail/path I noticed a double barrel shotgun leaning up against a tree. I looked around, whistled, and yelled for the hunter but received no response. When I walked closer to the shotgun I noticed that it was quite weathered........covered in rust and the wood was cracked. Lots went through my mind at the time as to why this gun was left leaning against this tree. All of a sudden goose bumps covered my skin where I felt most un-easy. I made a 180 degree turn and got the hell of the area.
From time to time I think about it and still wonder why that gun was left on the tree.
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Sort of same thing happened to a friend of mine. He has a camp that can only be accessed by air unless you want to spend two weeks hiking in. He was out one day moose hunting and came across two guns loaded laying about 36" apart with a tree behind them and centred about the distance if a person were sitting propped up against the tree. The guns were both loaded, one was single shot 20 ga. shotgun, the hammer was cocked. The other a lever action 30-30, cocked as well. Both guns were so old the stocks were completely gone, just the metal was left. He said there was a bare spot in the tree where it looked like someone had possibly peeled the bark to write a message on it. As soon as he got back to camp he flew back to civilization and contacted the OPP. They flew in the next day and he took them to the spot and they took a bunch of pictures of the site, took the guns and even cut the piece of tree out. He said they told him later they may never know how it all got there and could not find any records of anyone missing in that area and they had searched as far back as the 1920's to that point. He said it sure was spooky, it looked to him, the way the guns were laying there perfectly spaced to fit a person sitting on the ground, as if someone was waiting for something to happen or was trying to protect themselves from something or someone.
 
This is an AWSOME thread. Loved reading all 16 pages.

I, like others, have never found deer antler sheds. I do all of my camps dogging and have found a few small animal skulls (beaver, porcupine, etc) but never antlers.

On the back of my parents property (formerly my great grandfathers property) I found an old bone handled knife. Rusted with no markings and the bone was pretty much gone. I like to think it was once my great grand fathers and dropped there after gutting fish or something like that as he was an avid fisherman.

Would LOVE!!! To find an old gun. Any gun. Rusted all to rat s**t I don't care. Would be so cool.

Was in a small sea food resteraunt on a pier in Marco island Florida and they had what looked like an old single action revolver covered in crustations hanging from the ceiling. When I asked the waitress about it she said that someone had snagged it while deep sea fishing and gave it to the resteraunt for a decoration. They also had a bunch of fishing rods and reels in the same condition found the same way.
 
Dogs dragged a fresh beaver skull out of the bush a month ago...a day later and all that was left were two 3" long orange teeth. Encountered a young elk once, in an area where there have never been elk before or after. Found a little 4x4 wedged between two trees on a downslope...don't know what it was, probably been there for years.
 
Very Interesting thread ! I found a fillet knife that is my go to knife for cleaning fish and ducks. The hand fits my hands perfectly!
I have also come across a number of grow ops while dogging and searching for downed game. Once while bear hunting I came across a pair of ray band sunglasses that the outfitter had lost the pervious year. Not quite as interesting as some of your finds but i'll keep an eye out for ya!
 
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