What is the weirdest thing you have ever come across or found in the woods while hunting?

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What is the weirdest thing you have ever come across or found in the woods while hunting?

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Share your most interesting findings!
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Helicopter parts. Army fly boy wanted to show his dad the swamp and he missed seeing a hill but the hill did not miss him. Both died.
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Illegal Aliens. Years ago, my Mom was at the cabin by herself, a group came through wanting food. Food wasn't what my mom showed them. They may still be runnin'.
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Stumbled upon 100+ large cannabis plants ready to harvest. The smell was a dead giveaway.
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An old cemetery :shock:
When the sun came up I saw a bunch of very slight depressions in the ground. Then I noticed they were all in even groups of five...once I realized what it was I climbed down quick :!:
There were nineteen graves in all but only two had markers.
One of the markets was made out of wood and you couldn’t read the other one because it was so worn down.
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Furniture in a cave.
I used to hunt deep inside a national forest, part of which is very rugged terrain and is a designated wilderness area (nothing but foot traffic allowed). I found a cave and wandered in for a look see and there's a couch, end tables, and various odd and ends. Clearly being inhabited, but this is deep in the forest and miles from anything. I figured there was a still somewhere in the vicinity and I left out pretty quick lest they think I was a revenuer come calling :shock:
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A doe that hung herself in the crotch of a tree is one.
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Old gold mines from the 1700’s.
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Bear hunting in the White Mountains of New Hampshire one year long ago I came across some litter in the woods...some plastic bags and a box...I kicked over the cardboard box and noticed a label.
It read:
From “so and so” Funeral home:
Remains:
Ethel Wilson

I guess ol Mr Wilson scattered Ethel on this hillside.

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Or threw her out of an airplane.
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I once found a complete skeleton of a little desert kit fox. What made it weird and unusual , it was stuck/ wedged between the arm and main trunk of a huge Saguaro cactus.

I'm sure he slipped and the cactus needles held him from wiggling lose.

Most likely chased by any number of other critters.


They have been known to climb and sit on top of a saguaro cactus -- even bobcats are seen on top of different cacti.
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A old papoose carrier hanging from a tree branch.
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A large cast iron woodstove , way back in the woods nowhere near a road or trail . Would have taken a small army of people to carry it back where I found it .
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i was walking a swamp surrounded by corn for birds and found some ducks hanging by their necks in very old cedar stumps. the stumps had rotted unevenly and had fingers or spikes of wood sticking up. the ducks were hung in the crotches of those spikes and had been eviscerated. none of the meat was eaten. weasel? bobcat? i have no idea.
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Normous wrote:
Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:22 pm
Stumbled upon 100+ large cannabis plants ready to harvest. The smell was a dead giveaway.
Did you harvest anything that day?
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