I've lost a bunch of stuff hunting the only thing I've found was a rusted revolver could not tell the make.Q

Yeah, at our elk camp location one year, someone left a perfectly good 100 ft horse high lead line. For the week+ we were there, nobody showed up to claim it. We used it that week, and still do! Last year, another camp left an old combo hammer/hatchet in a stump at their camp. They were from Oregon, and I'll give it back to them if they show up next year. Other than that, just some old casings from many years past firings at game, and one old camp spoon way up in a basin where it would be a questionable camp location.

A friend found a spike camp on a high saddle that had been torn apart by bears. A few shed horns from deer and elk here and there.

A friend of mine found a Ruger single action 22 revolver on the road by his place. It's on a corner and he figured someone had put it on the roof of their car and forgot to take it off. it was missing the front sight and had a road rash, but functioned fine. He advertised in the local paper, but no one ever called. I finally sent it to Ruger and they refurbished it for him. That was ten years ago and he's still shooting it.

I found a Winchester hammerless 22 pump rifle in the wall of an old house we bought when we remodeled. It had been wrapped up and was perfect. Shot that a bunch of years before I traded it for something or other.

Other than that I've come up dry in the woods.

I used to coon hunt about 3-4 nights a week, year round. Found all sorts of things, Several BIG whitetail skulls & racks from deer that had been wounded and made it to the creek to die. You find arrows with broadheads in the ****dest places, hopefully you or the dogs don't get cut up too bad. Found a Puma folding knife one time that cleaned up nicely and is still in use. Found a mini-bike once, a Honda trail 70. Looked like someone had dumped it there with some other junk. A spark plug, some fresh gas, a couple of inner tubes and a seat cover and we rode the **** out of that little thing. Found a Nylon 66 rifle in a creek one time. My father in law had lost it while crossing it when the creek was up, I saw the butt sticking out of the sand a year later when the creek was almost dry. The gun was ruined, but he was glad to get it back anyway.

Arrow heads and the stainless steel cowling off a jet engine one time. Who do you suppose were the most surprised - the flight crew or the maintenance crew? :p

Found the remains of a still while scouting. Name of the stand? The Moonshine Stand, of course.

HG

I've lost a lot of things,but the only thing found was a folding campsaw.
My old hunting buddy,now deceased,was an 'old bottle'collector.This part of the Country has really old history.We found quite a few bottles that he was well pleased with.
Frank

While out elkl hunting, I found a clip for a Browning A-Bolt 7mag, loaded. Bet the guy was PO'd and surprised when when he went to crank another one in. They go for $40-50.

When I was 10 or 11, I found a Remington 510 22 in an old house under some boards. Dad said I could have it so we took it home and cleaned it. My oldest, Pvt. RJ and I cut the stock back and reblued the barrel when he was big enough to "need his own gun". Still shoots quite well.

RJ

I usually don't even find animals.

Like Warhawk, I found a motorcycle (sort of). A motorcycle frame and wiring- for a Kawasaki 650 I think it was. Obviously, it wasn't that far into the woods. Didn't weigh much though.

I found an old oil filter once. It was way out there. Couldn't figure that one out. I know animals drag some odd things off sometimes, but I cant see any of them wanting a nasty old oil filter.

I've found tree stands chained to trees on my property twice before. Bolt cutters took care of that. Thanks for the tree stands.

Other than that, just old, fired, shotgun shells with the metal corroded away. For whatever reason, 99% of the time they are either black (? make) or Remington green.

Yea, Last year I found a new Dewalt 18 volt cordless drill in the case with all the accessories. It was on an oil field road. I still use it.

About 1972 or 1971, found a dead guy...hunter...propped up against a tree like he was still hunting. Been dead about 10days (yep...some critter-action)....listed as missing, but they thought he had gone hunting in a different area, so no one was searching in the area I was hunting.

Older guy, hunting alone. Evidently felt sick, sat down to rest, propped his gun across his lap, and passed away. Kind of sad...but as i've though on it (and gotten older) come to believe that passing away while hunting may be one of the better ways to go (sad part is that he hunted alone).

My old dad was the dangdest thing for finding stuff I ever saw. He found a lock box full of cash money from the local car dealer laying on the side of the road. A clerk had left it on her top of her car. He gave it back of course. He found a pistol case with a S&W model 28 and some cash. Never found the owner, got a police friend to check the serial numbers with no luck. I guess one of my brothers has that still.

If he ever found any old thing interesting in the woods he would "fix it". I can still walk around and see where he hung a deer skull or old bottle or something on a limb. Makes me smile and sad at the same time.

Kind of sad...but as i've though on it (and gotten older) come to believe that passing away while hunting may be one of the better ways to go (sad part is that he hunted alone).

I agree with you ribbonstone... except the alone part. I wouldn't mind being left alone. I've got it in my will that I'm to be cremated and time dispensed from one of my deer feeders.

I found this headstone back near a corner of my place. The person died in 1891, was 73 years old. No clue who it is...

One year my brother & I rented horses & packed in elk camp, while getting fire wood
for camp I found a Newhouse bear trap sticking up out of the dirt with the setting clamps wired to it.
We had toomuch to pack out & had to leave it, the following year I went back with a pack frame & a couple gallons of water,stashed the water& packed out the trap.
Got $600 for the trap,bought a new gun.
Some critter chewed a hole in one of the water jugs.

Found a cheap pair of binoculars and Bucktool sitting right on top of a big rock on a portage in the BWCA (Northern MN).

We've found a good deal of random trash out in the woods while mushroom (morel) hunting.

Back in '72 I got a left shoulder full of bird shot. A 13 year old kid was bird hunting on the other side of a stand of trees from and fired his .410 at a bird. The shot was slowed down by the branches/leaves and it just stung me with no penetration. I chewed out his older brother who was his hunting adult. The kid got chewed out, he didn't get his bird, I didn't get mine and other than that I have never found anything worthy of remembering.

Baron

I found a rifled safe at the edge of town in '69. I took the cops out there and it was stolen from a country club about fifty miles away. Found a hopelessly rusted 45 Auto in a creek while bowfishing a few years ago. I gave it to the sheriff and he gave it back a few weeks later. Its now on the workbench in the garage - a bit too big to use as a paperweight.

My dad found a few old graves in the back of the place he hunts at. Just a little family plot, probably overgrown for a hundred years.

Things I have found:

An old balloon head 45-70 brass, turned black from weathering.

A old 44-40 brass, well aged.

About 8 elk antlers.

An old homestead site, had a spoon, broken pottery, a medicine bottle, a nearly gone foundation.

I have to think about this qiestion some more.

When in the Army in France, digging a fox hole, I found an old Napoleonic war musket, in the ground. Pretty much a lump of rust, but the stock was in good shape. Does that count?

I found a Longview Airfreight truck complete with packages. It was parked in the woods near my deer stand. When I called the frieght company, they didn't even know it was missing. Seems it had been stolen and the driver just quit and didn't tell anyone. I guess the driver figured he would be fired anyway so why bother having to explain your truck being stolen.

While hunting unfamiliar forest service land I found what appeared to be an old homestead. Some old bottles, few parts to car from the 20's, and a pot bellied stove with nickle trim was all that remained. Tried several times to relocate the site but haven't had any luck. There was no sign of a track or trail anywhere around.

My usual finds are fired brass, antler sheds and one time a lost hunter.

so far all I've found were a pair of shooting sticks (sitting upright along the edge of a huge meadow that I was hunting) and a Swiss army tool in a nice pouch (it was out in the same meadow near a kill site). Almost had a Ruger single six hanging in a tree but the owner came back for it before I found it. I definitely would have returned that revolver as I knew the fellow personally. I guess getting old makes us forget stuff.

Over the years I have found many ancient cartridge casings, Indian artifacts and 1800s bottles. No guns, though.:cool:

I find stuff all the time. Lately it has been stuff my partners have dropped on our lease. They have found stuff I have dropped also. Years ago when I hunted public land a lot you would find items people dropped next to the road as they got in and out of their vehicles in the dark. They would drop calls and scents and gloves and such. This allowed you to replace yours that you lost or try other brands than you use. Also gives you ideas.

I found an entire tackle box at a bridge one time. It was full of good stuff and I did take it. I have always wished I had left it in the hope that the real owner would have been the one to come back and get it, but I was young and did the unethical thing. I will never forget that.

About 20 years ago was small game hunting by myself in an area near Monroe, MI that was open to public hunting on private land. Just sign in/out to gain access to the area. After a couple hours in the woods, went back to my truck to warm up and listen to the UofM game. Hanging from a tree next to the parking area was a nice compound bow with quiver and arrows on it. I put it in my truck and continued with a snack. Fifteen minutes later a guy drives up in the truck that was parked there earlier, starts searching the area & I ask him if he's missing something? He was still in full camo clothing, had been out hunting deer that morning and had left his bow there in the tree. I could have told him I didn't see anything, but I knew it was the right thing to do, so I got the bow out of the back of my truck and gave it to him. He was sure glad to get that bow back!

Found a triple a mag light and it worked. Found some world 2 German helmets in a hedge row when I was stationed There. Also a lot of spent brass in the same place.

I stumbled onto an old cemetary once. It was totally overgrown and all the tombstones had fallen over. It was actually rather spooky!

I also found a pretty nice folding knife that someone had left behind. I used it to gut my first deer a couple years later. Still have it and use it as my main "go to" knife.

Older guy, hunting alone. Evidently felt sick, sat down to rest, propped his gun across his lap, and passed away. Kind of sad...but as i've though on it (and gotten older) come to believe that passing away while hunting may be one of the better ways to go (sad part is that he hunted alone).


I too usually hunt alone, and this is exactly how I would like to go, that or just hiking in the A-B wilderness.

I haven't really found that much stuff when hunting though. I'm usually the only person that hunts on our land though.

You can lose things in the woods faster than you think. I remember when I was kid in the back 40 acres; I rested my BB gun against a tree and took a short walk for a reason I can't remember. It took me about two weeks to find that gun again and that was on my own property; I can image if you laid something down in unfamiliar woods and then tried to find it.

Doc

Interesting thread -

I found a nice climbing tree stand yesterday and the skull of a mammal that I haven't identified yet. The deer seasons are all over now and the tree stand should be removed. It was not locked in place nor did it have any name written on it. Nonetheless, I left it there hoping its owner would remember it and come back and get it.

I looked over the skull and I am still not certain what it is,but I put it in the trash.

Terry

Way to go Terry. I hope the owner finds it.

I was hunting bears and hogs and I foung a pair of pliers in Citigo Creek in the mountains of east TN. They are a little rusty but still see use to this day. I think I loose alot more than I find.

Forgot about this one...wasn't really hunting, but had a gun along and small game season was open, so it counts (even though i had no intention of shooting anything..was just scouting a possible deer area for later in the season).

In a small clearning, just off a wooden access road (the oil people would sometimes lay wood planking through boggy areas), found:
1. The hood (bonnet) for an MGB
2. Dented hubcap from a Checker Marathon (that would be your "classic" yellow cab type car).
3. What looked to be a complete wooden coffin (empty...but showed evidence of being occupied at some point), broken into arm-length pieces.

Probably some very disturbing story that linked all three together; I just got the devil out of there, called the state police from a pay phone, and never went back.

In the late sixties a friend and I found a weather balloon draped over a ridge on Brush Creek near Eagle Colorado. A black box was attached and had a plaque that offered a reward for its return. As this was about 10 years after the Roswell incident we were a little spooked about it, but we did turn it in and got $25 as I recall. They said the thing had crashed about 2 years before so the data in it wasn't of much help to them....but they paid up anyway.:)

Found one near Hillrose, Co. back in the late 50's. We saw the light attached to it right at sunrise as it came down on it's parachute and were very curious as to what it was. Packaged it up per instructions and dropped it in the mail. Never got a reward, just a card saying where it was launched from (Denver), the date of launch, height attained and thanks for sending it back.

The one we found was also from the National Weather Service in Denver; as we lived in Denver we took it in personally. They were very nice about it and had us show on a map exactly where it was found.
Dick

Twice this year on the same farm. There's been an old green ball cap hanging on a barb wire fence for a couple years. This year, a wren had built it's nest in it. Very nice surprise.
Same farm, went squirrel hunting, got 3 in short order, and decided that was enough. Back at the truck, I decided to pick up the trash from the end of the farm lane. Saw something by the gate, went to fetch it, and came back with 2 full and one partial case of beer! Might have been left by kids playing around in the creek. The farmer told me to keep it because he and his wife are teetotalers. I drink about 15 cans a year, so I'm set for about 4 years.

Back 25+ years ago I was hunting wild pigs in rain forest on the "Big Island" of Hawaii. The terrain was of course very mountainous and rainy. I accidentally slipped and slid down a long embankment and when I finally stopped at bottom I felt something hard under me and it was a BUCK knife still in it's sheath but with the belt loop missing. The knife had light surface rust, and the leather was wet and soft so i'm guessing it got there the week end before someone else slipping and sliding down the same hill a week earlier with his knife sheath ripping off his belt without his knowledge. I got it home, steel-wooled the surface rust off, and let the leather sheath dry out before sewing on my own belt loop made from an old leather belt, and neat'sfoot oiling the whole thing. I still have that knife.

About the only thing like that I ever found was a small plastic tackle box that has a random assortment of fishing gear, a pair of rusty needle nose pliers and a makeshift pot pipe. The thing reeked of what I can only assume was marijuana (never tried it or even been around it) but the smell went away after I tossed the pipe.

A moron I went to school with got up to take care of business and left his rifle leaning against a tree. He didn't know where he was, got lost and never found it again. Probably a good thing as he shouldn't possess a weapon.

Kudu40

Found a pair of Wind River binoculars laying in the trail Elk hunting one year. I sent the serial number to Leupold to see if anyone had filled out the owners card and sent it in.
They hadn't; nice set of glass that I use all the time.

Some days, I'd be lucky to find my way home from wandering in search of Grouse...

Good thing the dogs know the way back to the jeep.

I can also remember finding a Western Field hunting knife and a Robeson belt hatchett beside a trailside 'toilet stop' in western Colorado. Bet the guy was shocked when he shot his deer and reached for his knife!:D
gatguy

The most memorial stuff I can think of,is when I was just 10 yrs old I guess..Down here in MS where we use to hunt was on the Big Black River.Alot of cypruss swamps etc. Well I was in a cypruss swamp that had some of the largest cyprusses Id ever seen.Almost like you expected a dinosaur to walk out (you get the setting)....Well This 1 lone small cypress caught my eye that was about a foot in a half thick and appeared to have a rubbing on it,closer inspection I found large claw marks and the rub went up over my head (I was 12 or so ) . I returned later to the tree with my father (who was raised in CO) and he stated , Holy **** ,never thounght Ive never see one of those again,he stated it was a bear clawing.

Other than thats ,just a few of the inique thongs I have found graveyards , Old logging expedition trails that had the dates on tin of some sort dateing back WAY BACK ( in CO)...

I found a bison skull while bowfishing last November in the creek. I find these about once a year. A lot of buffalo bones in the creek, but the skulls and jaws are all I pack out. Every so often I find an elk antler, and these animals have not been in eastern NE for over 150 years. Last year I found floating down the creek a credit card from 1969. I find a lot of stuff; I pride myself on being very observant.

I find a good amount of skulls. Oddly enough I found a half filled keg before in the woods.

We found an old 40s vintage rusted Willys jeep in a gully with an aspen tree growing up through the engine compartment. The tires were pretty much rotted away, as was a good deal of the sheet metal. Whoever had abandoned it had left the hood up and, as trees will do in the strangest places, one had taken root beneath the Jeep and grown up right around the engine and up to about 20' or so high.
We left the Jeep there. :)

In 1981 near Vernonia Oregon while on a drive through a thick stand of big timber (deer season) we came into a clearing and walked up to a Silverado pickup. All the trees around it had been cut to make the clearing. Just so happens I was hunting with a city policemen from St. Helens and he told us there was a theft ring operating in the area and it was suspected that a helicopter logging operation was involved. They were operating on the weekends at night. Anyway, the truck was up on stumps and the springs in the back were cut with a torch so they could pull the differential. Everything, glass, knobs, sterring column, guages, I mean everything but the body had been stripped. Rusty the cop recorded the VIN and off we went. I guess that qualifies as finding something while hunting.?.? That thing had to be buried a good 1/2 mile from the edge of the stand. I always wondered if they caught those guys. A year later I moved north to Seattle.

All I ever found while hunting was a small flashlight while on a trail to my spot. Still worked , the light was bright so was probably dropped earlier that day.

found a stanley thermos on a stump justabout stuck to the stump with rust,the coffee inside still smelled like coffee,couldnt get my brother to drink it

About the only things, I've found while hunting were: a hatchet, hat, a half filled box of .22 LR Ammo, and the remains of an old weather balloon.

While looking for woodchucks on my grandpa's farm, I found a glass jug (just like one you would put 'moonshine' in, with the small fingerloop on the neck) that said Coca-Cola on it, in embossed glass. I set it aside to pick up later that day, and somebody had taken it. That was 15 years ago, and to this day, I have never found out who took it.

vanbuzen9

I have found 2 flint arrow heads, one in a dry river bed, one on a cow path, both while small game hunting.

Today is the 1st day of turkey season in Missouri. Today I found a bag full of morel mushrooms, no turkeys. I went home happy.Q

Boy, Let's see:
1) Found 200+ live .223 blanks, a camo Parker pen, and a clipboard on an army base.
2) A clip of Korean war 30-06 blanks for an M-1(corroded to h---)
3) Lots of fossils
4) A clay assaying cup for melting gold
5) Two model A frames (buried and uncovered in a streambank by a storm)
6) A friend found a 56 Spencer round (fired)
7) a couple of arrowheads
8) A spade
9) Old (ca 1920's) soft drink bottles from Paso Robles Softdrink Company

Boy did I make a find this last weekend out turkey hunting. It is a Garmin GPSmap 60C. I found it in the bottom of a really steep gully on a south-facing hillside on the South Fork of the Clearwater River in Idaho. Battery still works and it fired right up, and has maps downloaded and everything. Suspect it was dropped by a horn hunter off his belt clip. I've never had one so don't know much about them, but one of the turkey hunters I was with was able to navigate through it and found a "Home" waypoint in it. He suggested I punch in the coordinate in Google Earth to see where the "Home" point is, and I should be able to locate the owner. I'll give that a try and see where it takes me.

Shawn, how'd it go with google earth?
I watched the same kind of thing happen except it was my buddy who lost his gadget and it was found by an old guy who had only ever seen one in a magazine. He goes home and jumps online to garmin and downloads the manual, reads it through and sparks the thing up and finds home plus the info on the start-up screen.
2 weeks later there's a knock on my buddy's door and a grinning old guy asking if it was his. 2 weeks after that there were two cases of homebrew on the old guy's doorstep and he was grinning.

blackfly

blackfly,
I punched the "Home" coordinates into Google Earth and it took me to a house outside of Harpster, Idaho. I have a screen shot of the location, and a road name in front of the house. No idea who it is. The only thing is, is that it's a 7-hr drive from me. I have friends somewhat in the area that might be able to locate who it is and then I can mail it to him. Otherwise, it will be next time I get up there to make a visit, which might be awhile. My good karma is ratcheting up though, so I might have to go buy a Powerball lottery ticket!

If you get a name, use this to help you look....

http://www.zabasearch.com/

Good find Shawn,,

While hunting have found a couple of knives,
A Buck 110 older one with 440C steel, And one made by J.A. Hellberg ,fixed blade horn handle nice old knife.

Fishing once in a canoe on the Payette River my uncle says "hey there's a gun on the bottom of the river". 4 of us in the canoe and we tipped it over as everyone of us looked over the side at the same time. We were in about chest deep water. After a 1/2 hour or so running down our own stuff ( only lost one oar) we finally found a Winchester model 12 on the river botom.
Uncle worked at a local Saw mill at the time was telling guys about our find. Guy comes in say it was his gun lost in a boating accident the year before ( gun was rusted shut) and the Ins. Co. wouldn't pay him with out the gun in hand. So he got his gun back and Ins. Co. paid him.

Found a mostly stripped stolen car once out shooting ground squirrels. Always wondered if they heard us comming and left as the job they were doing looked half done and when we returned a while later it was finished.

good topic. this last winter i stumbled onto a pile of dead coyotes, stacked up like cordwood. none rotten, so they were from that fall or early winter.
now hopefully the snow is overwith, they ought to be gettin pretty ripe. think ill stay away from that area till around sept. then see if i can find a good skull to clean and bleach, most of them were shot in the head.

It occasionally floods here in Mississippi . One year after a flood I stumbled across a 1000 gallon fuel tank in the middle of a pretty dense wooded area.

I found a stone knife near Slim Buttes, South Dakota. It was verified as genuine by a PhD at School of Mines. Its on loan to the High Plains Museum.

I found six 45-90 loaded cartridges in a leather case under a rock ledge while antelope hunting in Harding County.

TR

I find stone points/artifacts on the continental divide (12000ft. or more) every time I hunt sheep in the northern Windrivers of Wyoming. I've also found ancient bison skulls & bones melting out of the glaciers in the same area. I think they wintered there because the wind exposed the meager vegetation for them to eat... same as the sheep and some elk do even today.

If you get a name, use this to help you look....

http://www.zabasearch.com/

I struck out on a name to the GPS I found. E-mailed Garmin with the serial number, and whoever bought it didn't send in their warranty card. All I have now is the screen shot of the location by Harpster of the "Home" coordinates, from Google Earth, which someday I'll visit to see if that's really the owner.

did you try to just google the person's name? sometimes that might work.

Nope, I have no name to go with the GPS.

How bad do you wish to find the guy? Since you know the street and town, you should be able to estimate the house number, then do a reverse look up on the #.

http://www.whitepages.com/10778/reverse_address

If it is a short street, you only need the street name and the town and it will give you everybody on that street.

I track stuff like this down for my job all the time and use this regularly.

Good Luck

How bad do you wish to find the guy?

Well, I would like to find the owner, as I'd hate to loose something like that. I have no use for it, although it is kind of 'gee whiz' neat to mess around with. The trouble is, you'd have to know Harpster, ID, to know that it is just a wide spot in the road, and maybe 100 people, I'd guess. And the Google Earth screen shot I have of the "Home" coordinates places the house 1/2 - 1 mile outside of this little town. I'd have no problem driving to the place if I were there, but I'm a 7-hour drive away. Next time I'm up that way, I'll take a detour to the place.

I see your point. If the GPS gives you the lat and long you can punch in #'s in directly to Map quest, which might help.

http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

I did a reverse look up for "13" (the main highway) in harpster, ID and 3 names came up, but not with street #'s.

I found three rusted traps while deer hunting. I took them home, brushed them down and coated them with bees wax, after which they worked perfectly. I really had no use for them , so I gave them to my now ex- mother in law.

Shawn,
You have a PM.

blackfly

A successful day for me! I found the GPS owner. I placed a 'Lost & Found' ad in the Idaho County Free Press (Grangeville, ID) and got a call today on it. I returned the call and the Owner was able to name off the 'Home' N & W coordinates, and several other waypoint names that were entered in the unit. He gave me his mailing address, so it will be off to him shortly.

Turns out someone borrowed the GPS from him to go find a specific tree, then lost the unit on his way out.

Well kudos to you for your persistance Shawn. so many folks would have wrote it off and kept it for their own.
Hoo-ya for your honesty!:cool:

If I ever lose something, I hope it's by you.

By the by, you didn't happen to find my mint condition, unfired, pre-64 Winnie model 70 in it's box in the woods by you?:p

I'm sorry Chris, I haven't found that pre-'64.....snicker! If I had, it might not be in "unfired" condition anymore! That was kind of like fingernails on a chalkboard, wasn't it?!!:D

The GPS owner was thankful, and hadn't yet gone out and bought a new replacement. I might have to hit him up for some turkey hunting on his property next spring!

I'm sorry Chris, I haven't found that pre-'64.....snicker! If I had, it might not be in "unfired" condition anymore! That was kind of like fingernails on a chalkboard, wasn't it?!!:D

The GPS owner was thankful, and hadn't yet gone out and bought a new replacement. I might have to hit him up for some turkey hunting on his property next spring!


certainly is Shawn......LOL
You did the right thing, and returned it to the rightful owner. Kudos again to your honesty & perserverance!
Not that it would matter in my opinion, but did he offer anything?

Not that it would matter in my opinion, but did he offer anything?

No, and it doesn't matter to me either as I'm not looking for that. If he offered to let me hunt turkeys or whitetails on his property, I'd probably put that in my drawer of "things to do someday" though!:p

Found a Pentax SLR camera along side a backwoods road in northern Idaho many years ago. It was on our first family camping trip of the Spring and there was still plenty of snow in and along side the road. Called the Sheriffs office (Shashone County I think) and gave them the location found and all the info. They said I could hold on to the camera (the SO was some driving distance from where I found the camera) and if no one claimed it within 6 months it was mine. I developed the film hoping for a license plate I could run or something else definative but no luck. I really expected someone to report such a nice camera as lost but that never happened so it was finders/keepers after the 6 months...

There is a spot where there used to be a blacksmith shop way back when the old timber was cut. The mule trail is still used, or at least it was until the mule's father that owns the sliver of property at the end of the trail posted it. Anyways, we find all sorts of intersting stuff back at the blacksmiths shop. My hunting buddy and I both lost knives within about 2 years in the same area, the one he lost was one that he bought off of a guy in basic training in WWII who was looking for beer money, it was kinda like a USMC ka-bar, but it wasn't. Mine was a schrade sharpfinger that I got for my 12th birthday. My triggergaurd caught the snap and the knife came out at some point. I still have the scratches on my triggerguard

i don't know if this is a common occurrence or not but i found a row of sheds(large sheds) mule deer, and in a rather remote place. They seemed to be placed in a straight line--not random looking at all,and it was perhaps 3 or 4 sets I suppose there is a logical reason for this, but it sure makes me want to go back there(if I could ever find it again)

Shawn, sometimes the old fangled way of finding somebody works too.

Nice work