I was coming thru a small hardwood flat behind a friends pasture field this morning and found this beard. I'm guessing someone had been in there Saturday for our youth day and the beard fell off a decoy. I've found lot's of stuff in the woods but never a turkey beard. Guess the guy wanted that 'real as it gets' look.
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
Myself
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
That's mighty weird stuff right there !
Wandered up onto a meth lab. Wandered back out as quickly as a I could but on very high alert.
My grandson found a turkey beard just this morning. It was all gnarly and had been there a while looked like. Since season is only three days old, I'm guessing it was from a predator kill, but there were no feathers or any other sign around the spot.
Less gobblers for us! :'(
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
IM THINKING ABOUT STAYING AT HOME.......
Found Marijuana crops once. Several old tombstones, deer skulls, and once a rifle. Tracked down the owner to the rifle and returned it.
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Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 17, 2017, 03:02:47 PM
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Now that there's a fellow who's on his last leg.
I found a Remington 1187 Premier 2 years ago on Mississippi public land.
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Sprayed it down with Kroil and any other kind of penetrating oil I could find and got it all taken apart.
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Took it to a local gunsmith and had it checked out, Cerakoted, and back in working condition. Wanting to kill a turkey with it now!
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How does one lose a $1000 shotgun in the woods ?
Didn't necessarily "find" this, but it was an odd enough thing for me to take a picture.
Also found marijuana a few times.
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Quote from: turkeyfeathers on April 17, 2017, 03:50:55 PM
How does one lose a $1000 shotgun in the woods ?
This particular WMA has several people who deer and squirrel hunt off horseback. It had 5 lead #6 shot in the gun so I'm guessing they were squirrel hunting and it fell out of a horse scabbard and into the edge of the slough. I listed it on a couple hunting forums as well as Facebook and Instagram and said that whoever could identify the approximate location or the part of the serial number I could make out could have the gun. Apparently losing a gun is common because I had 3 different people contact me about lost guns in MS WMA's in that area.
Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 17, 2017, 03:02:47 PM
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Was he missing his right leg or left?
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I have found a cemetery in the middle of no where with no roads for a couple of miles in any direction. there were about a dozen graves ranging from early 1800s to mid 1800s. even a set of twins that were both 3 years old when they passed.
I saw a couple having sex on public land one morning while turkey hunting. I just watched for a few min's and easy on down the road...It really was a great morning hunt...i enjoyed and left going the other way...
Lost my marbles, but never found them.
I did find my way after being lost once though.
Actually, I have found all the usual, such as antler sheds, interesting animal skeletons, etc. But one place I hunted, we found an old hippie bus (that looked like the Scoobie Doo mystery van).
That van was on the side of a steep hill and in thick foliage. No way to come in from above (steep rocky ridge), and we have no idea how he came in from below to get that van there.
Someone had at some time, set it up for living in. Ripped out half the seats with a table, and sleeping area. We tried to clean it out, cause we thought it would be fun to camp out in... We worked for about 10 minutes and found just too many undesirable critters (spiders, snakes, etc.)...
We asked the owner about it, and he also emphasized that it was a mystery. He thought the only way to get it there was by dropping it with a helicopter.
Came upon a fellow one time in the western NC mountains, he was wearing a yellow rain suit. It was 80 degrees and no rain in sight. He was carrying an axe and a shovel, he had a mongrel dog with him....everything, and I mean everything, was covered in blood from head to toe. The dog was even licking it off his chops.
Didn't go any further to see if I could 'find' anything.
Gods of Thunder
One time I came upon an old picnic table in the middle of nowhere at the end of a trail in a clearing. On the table was a very large, fresh (not rotted but rigormortis set in) german shepherd dead on the table. One fork and one steak knife were sticking out into its ribs. No other sign of people other than some cigarette butts. Probably the outright weirdest.
I found a taurus tracker revolver in a creek one time and it worked after some cleaning and a visit to a gun smith.
What would've been the worst one luckily someone stopped my dad and warned him. We were going to chase some pheasants (back when we had them) and were headed towards some thickets as this was the late season and they were in thicker stuff. A very distraught guy was walking very fast out of the woods near the parking lot, where we would take the trail and walk to the field. Guy comes up to my dad and motions to come close and says "can I talk to you a minute". Guy was a stranger but being a kid (9ish maybe) i didn't think too much of it and wandered around while the guy whispered in dad's ear. "Let's go" dad said, I wondered why. He said we weren't to be hunting there and we would try another field. Years later dad told me the story, the other guy had come across a guy who blew his brains out in the woods and left a note pinned to his chest. He was just coming out to report it and didn't want a guy with his kid to come across it.
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Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 17, 2017, 03:02:47 PM
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Was he missing his right leg or left?
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I believe it was the left ;D
Looks as if you have a picture of his missing leg if I ever run across him again I'll see if he thinks that's his. LOL
:TooFunny:
Found a stolen F150 from a local Ford dealership.
Found this Saturday 1849-1901
I found this on our leased land..... and its not mine or anyone I know of.
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Found what I believe is a confederate gravesite in middle of nowhere deep woods just yesterday. Grave had been excavated a long time ago. Hopefully it was done after the war by his family, and the man is resting amongst his kin.
About the weirdest I've heard of was two guys who found a hand with a Rolex on the wrist sticking up out of the ground. One of them still has the watch.
I think Ronnie is the winner. that's some messed up stuff brother.
One time, several years ago,I found a grave way out in eastern mt.It was a guy who died in 1880. Said he was kicked by a horse. The Indians had put small animal skulls on it, as some kind of ritual. It was a spooky place, but I shot a bird near the old cabin, where this guy used to live.
Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 17, 2017, 03:02:47 PM
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Coffee out my nose... Good stuff.
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Not turkey hunting related, but ill never forget this one. Was duck hunting in a public wma. Some feller apparently decided he did not need his brand new drake waterfowl 4in 1 duck jacket. In it was 13 shells, his wallet, all of his identification, and 11 100$ bills, his duck calls with his Bands on them, a gps, and a remote for his dog coller. The guy was from South Carolina and this was in Arkansas. Was able to contact him and get his stuff back to him , but what was crazy, he had lost it 4 days prior to that. He said the hole was on the gps, but it didn't help him because his gps was in his coat. He was mighty glad to get that back to say the least. Never forget that.
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This one plus a few more.
Not really weird but turkey related. A few years ago I was hunting on the last day of our fall turkey season and noticed something white off the edge of the trail I was walking. It turned out to be a white piece of cloth between the lid and the body of a box call. I thought it's more than likely no good and been exposed to the elements for a period of time. I was wrong. It was in perfect shape and I assume the owner had lost it earlier that day. I was hunting on public land and the call had no name or address on it. I took it and figured if I heard of someone and his lost call I would return it. Never heard anything and I still have it and use it. It is a early 1970's vintage Lynch "World Champion". Sounds great and gets better with age!
Quote from: WildTigerTrout on April 19, 2017, 04:20:16 PM
Not really weird but turkey related. A few years ago I was hunting on the last day of our fall turkey season and noticed something white off the edge of the trial I was walking. It turned out to be a white piece of cloth between the lid and the body of a box call. I thought it's more than likely no good and been exposed to the elements for a period of time. I was wrong. It was in perfect shape and I assume the owner had lost it earlier that day. I was hunting on public land and the call had no name or address on it. I took it and figured if I heard of someone and his lost call I would return it. Never heard anything and I still have it and use it. It is a early 1970's vintage Lynch "World Champion". Sounds great and gets better with age!
You found a Glorious one. That same call I've killed more turkeys over that same box call than any other call. It's the nicest most consistent sounding call I've ever used. It also gobbles like a champ with a rubber band.
Found this on public Game Lands few years ago. Was located in a deep dredge line with little standing water in the bottom. My guess it was out of sight unless you climbed up and looked down in the dredge line, and with the little standing water, it would keep them alive? From the looks of it, I don't think they ever made their harvest?
Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 17, 2017, 03:02:47 PM
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Morgan county :emoticon-cartoon-012:
I found a rock one time.
Quote from: Spitten and drummen on April 17, 2017, 04:36:01 PM
I have found a cemetery in the middle of no where with no roads for a couple of miles in any direction. there were about a dozen graves ranging from early 1800s to mid 1800s. even a set of twins that were both 3 years old when they passed.
European immigrants who had the small pox?
I have found a cemetery with about 10 stones I could make out where all the young kids died within a month or so and the parents died quite a few years later. Twins were 18 months old if I remember correctly. Looked up the dates then and was around the same time as London was hit very hard.
Must have been tragic times.
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Quote from: WildTigerTrout on April 19, 2017, 04:20:16 PM
Not really weird but turkey related. A few years ago I was hunting on the last day of our fall turkey season and noticed something white off the edge of the trial I was walking. It turned out to be a white piece of cloth between the lid and the body of a box call. I thought it's more than likely no good and been exposed to the elements for a period of time. I was wrong. It was in perfect shape and I assume the owner had lost it earlier that day. I was hunting on public land and the call had no name or address on it. I took it and figured if I heard of someone and his lost call I would return it. Never heard anything and I still have it and use it. It is a early 1970's vintage Lynch "World Champion". Sounds great and gets better with age!
You found a Glorious one. That same call I've killed more turkeys over that same box call than any other call. It's the nicest most consistent sounding call I've ever used. It also gobbles like a champ with a rubber band.
I agree it has a great sound, pure turkey right there! After giving it a little thought I have concluded I have had that call for about 15 years and currently display it on my bookcase in the man cave. Boy time really passes quickly. I often wonder about the original owner. I am sure he was sick about the loss. You can see where he held the bottom of the box while calling. My guess is he bought the call new. I wonder how many birds were killed with it. Guess I will never know.
I found a Garmin GPS dog tracking handheld in the woods on a WMA. I put new batteries in it and it came on. My buddy recognized the dogs names from a coon hunt. I finally found his phone number by asking around and got in touch with him. He was excited to get it back. Had been missing for a few months and a critter had been packing it around. Had several teeth marks on it.
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Quote from: Spitten and drummen on April 17, 2017, 04:36:01 PM
I have found a cemetery in the middle of no where with no roads for a couple of miles in any direction. there were about a dozen graves ranging from early 1800s to mid 1800s. even a set of twins that were both 3 years old when they passed.
European immigrants who had the small pox?
I have found a cemetery with about 10 stones I could make out where all the young kids died within a month or so and the parents died quite a few years later. Twins were 18 months old if I remember correctly. Looked up the dates then and was around the same time as London was hit very hard.
Must have been tragic times.
your most likely right. its sad seeing all those childrens graves.
While mountain goat hunting in SE Alaska, I found a Puma knife that had been there for a while. In Southern Illinois, I found a box of shells one at a time strung down a levy as I exited a flooded timber duck hunting spot. Several years ago while turkey hunting in the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois, I found an old well at ground level wedged between two big trees at least a half-mile from the road and no other structures around. I marked it with orange tape, but that's probably gone by now.
found a half naked drunk college girl and her lab. She had put her Chevy in the ditch. She came up to my truck pressed herself against it and said "Do you have a jerkstrap?" I was talking to The Boss Hen on the phone and had one of the Lil' Poults in the backseat. My first thought was, this is a setup. I am about to have a gun pulled on me and get car jacked in the middle of no where. I said " I do not, but I will send someone that does." Then that's when The Boss Hen starts asking.."Who are you talking to?" County deputy came and picked her up...2X legal limit. :z-dizzy:
out turkey hunting here in Montana last weekend, loaded down with decoys, call, and my gun. start walking in the direction that I heard a gobbler earlier in the morning, he was WAY deep in the timber. I get about a mile from the truck and find a winter kill 5x2 mule deer skull. I think that is kind of cool, keep on walking towards the gobbler and look down to find a brown 7 pt bull elk shed, walk about another 500 yds towards the gobbler with an extra 20-30 lbs on my back and find the matching set to the 7 pt I found, another 7 pt brown shed, perfectly symmetrical set. I am guessing somewhere in the 360" range. Pick up that shed and start carrying it, walk about another hundred yds and hit my call. Get a response about two hundred yds away in the timber. I start scrambling to set up decoys and get set up with these monster sheds and buck skull as part of my cover up against an old doug-fir tree. Sit for about a half hour and no response, next thing you know I can see something strutting through the timber. Here comes 3 toms and 25 hens working their way down to me. Get a tom to break free and come check out my decoys at 12 yds and smoked a 9.5" beard beautiful tom. Then I think to myself, god i'm a dumb kid, now I gotta carry out this bird, all of my gear, two big bull sheds, and a buck skull back two miles to the truck. Lesson learned, the old guys back at the truck looked at me with this big heaping pile of stuff and just laughed and said "looks like you found some stuff and got a bird." :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
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Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I found a guy missing a leg that smelled of moonshine and marijuana looked like he had been living out of a tent and had recently skinned a canine.
Ha ha!!!
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Intersting finds: I've lost more than I have found but I did find an old hunting knife once on National forest land. Also found a small grave yard near the Peaks of Otter in Va. Read later that settlers in the 1700's fled to the peaks to avoid the Indians. Looked like some did not make it. Most of the graves were dated in the 1700's: at least the ones you could read. Many of them were fallen over and half buried. No sign of a house or fort but it was a short distance from the Blue Ridge Parkway which follows the old road. Always wonder what happened to thise people.
Found this one the other day. Had been around it but never seen for the last 4 years. Lawn chair between a locust and an elm about 12 feet up.
I found a family living in an RV on private land. Before I could tell the land owner they had bolted. Could've been a roving meth lab. Most likely people down on their luck.
I felt like resurrecting this thread could be fun.
I have found a few things of interest. I hunted an old base in North Va and on their found ordnance with aluminum riveted fins still attached that where used in tests from the 40's.
I found a old trash pile that had medicine and soda bottles from the 20's. Most of which where cobalt blue. I kept a couple.
One cool thing I found that really stood out I found in the deep woods completely surrounded by trees was an old chimney standing about 20' tall with nothing else around it. My guess is 1700's time frame. When I say nothing else I mean there was leaves and grass and trees that had to be over 100 years old standing where a home should have been in relation to the chimney.
I found a old model vehicle from the 30's as well, but absolutely no way to tell what type from what was left.
The first morning of Deer muzzle loader season I found a slaughtered pigs head on a stump. It was my first solo hunt having just turned 16 and watching " The Amittyville Horror" the night before :OGturkeyhead:
Quote from: guesswho on April 17, 2017, 12:44:33 PM
I found somebody's leg one time in Georgia. Mostly bone. From the hip joint all the way to the toes. Found an old moonshine still just prior to that. Have walked up on a couple different small marijuana crops. Found an old tent with what appeared to be a freshly skinned dog hanging beside it, could have been a coyote but looked like Bowzer to me.
I can't tell if you're someone I would like to hunt with, or someone I'd want to steer clear of....
Found an old peddle bike way out in the middle of the woods a long long ways from the nearest civilization , another time I found a Buck 110 lock blade that had been there for many years, and last year while hunting a huge WMA in Virginia we hound an old moonshine still, I found my son's Yellow heart striker a year later in the state land , Probably one of the funniest things I ever found way out in the state land was a Toilet..
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Good read thanks for bring this back up, I have posted this before, found it on the way out from turkey hunting one day, being from the south I wish it CSA.(https://i.imgur.com/Y73fwvO.jpg)
I found these on a Florida WMA much too far for anyone that needed them to be able to put them there.
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Found this on State Game Lands along with a well worn seat. It made me stop and just look around and take it in. Just before I found this sign I found a Hershey chocolate bar in the field. So I partook of it and listened for a gobble.
That's pretty cool!
Walked into a marijuana patch a couple years ago...marked the coordinates and called it in.
Found an area cordoned off with binder twine whereas they walked around and around with a spool until it was an enclosure. They had life sized plywood cutouts of people hanging up in the trees. Well off the beaten path. Some weird cult thing I imagine.