Strangest thing you came across while hunting

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Not really strange, more sad really. I was making my way down an old fire road on the mountain I hunt when I saw something dangling from the brush. Upon further inspection, I realized it was a balloon with a tag on it.
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My brother found one of those while elk hunting a few years ago. The tag had a prayer written on it from a child that was asking God to heal Momma of cancer. I don't know if we should read those tags when we see 'em.
 
A B-25 Mitchell bomber.

Won't say where... Won't even say in what state.

Been back several times and ran the numbers to make certain it wasn't undiscovered by the USAAF after it's unintended descent.

I dig it like I do a mysteriously vacated settlers homestead, respect and secrecy.
 
PonyKiller said:
pretty mundane, but a rolled up NY state motorcycle dealer tag in the crook of a tree that I sat down in. It poked me on the rear I grabbed it, and turned it in to the police. It was an odd find 2 miles from a road, and a mile from a path that you could pass a truck in. Since it wasn't accompanied by A. bright patch of grass or B. a depression I picked it up and went on with my hunting. Being the Pine barrens if it were accompanied by A. or B. I would have put it back and walked on.

We used to get a bunch of devil worshipers round here. make shift alters, panache for sacrificing roosters and sheep and burning pentagrams of varying sizes every winter. When death metal trailed off in the mid 90's and they grew outta the phase it stopped
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Read my story in this thread. I was in the old Silica Sand Wash when I found the alter. Where about are you from?
 
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About two years ago, while squirrel hunting at my parents farm in Western Kentucky, I saw a huge black cat. Thing was bigger than our German Sheppard and had a very long tail. I was near the top of a hill and it was about 50 yards down below following a creek bed.

Armed with only my 10/22, I decided it was better to just freeze and watch. It moved from tree to tree and was awesome to watch.

About 20 years ago, my Mother saw one in the same woods when deer hunting (yeah, she's awesome like that).

I spoke with the Game Warden, and he said there's been alot of sightings, but none that he's seen. Told me it was also illegal to shoot them.
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Been 30 years or more...but was fishing at one of the small lakes on the Ballard Co. refuge...late afternoon a pair of large black cats wandered into view about 100 yards off. Watched them for several minutes...pretty cool. According to the authorities they were a figment of my imagination:)
 
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About two years ago, while squirrel hunting at my parents farm in Western Kentucky, I saw a huge black cat. Thing was bigger than our German Sheppard and had a very long tail. I was near the top of a hill and it was about 50 yards down below following a creek bed.

Armed with only my 10/22, I decided it was better to just freeze and watch. It moved from tree to tree and was awesome to watch.

About 20 years ago, my Mother saw one in the same woods when deer hunting (yeah, she's awesome like that).

I spoke with the Game Warden, and he said there's been alot of sightings, but none that he's seen. Told me it was also illegal to shoot them.

Been 30 years or more...but was fishing at one of the small lakes on the Ballard Co. refuge...late afternoon a pair of large black cats wandered into view about 100 yards off. Watched them for several minutes...pretty cool. According to the authorities they were a figment of my imagination:)
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Same thing with the mountain lions we hear calling every night or when we find their tracks in our pasture or the black bear tracks we found outside Crockett. Every one they talk to tells us we are crazy or mistaken. I've killed mountain lions before, I've tracked them and been tracked by them. I know cat tracks yet there's no way they are her. I call B.S.
 
Once, when I had temporarily misplaced myself in a U.P. cedar swamp, I wandered out to a dirt road. There I found a guy hunting the edge of the road and I asked if he had seen anything. He told me his companions down the road had had a couple of "sound shots" but that he hadn't seen anything and he didn't take "sound shots". He was a Detroiter. I had never heard of such a thing! A Detroiter that didn't take "sound shots"? If he wasn't lying, that was the strangest thing I ever came across.
 
Sorry about the late response. I had a hard time finding where I had stored the pictures.
Weird!
 

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I never even thought that it might be spelling something out. I'm gonna have to head back out and take some pics from farther away and from different angles.
Maybe the trees were just cold!
 
Yarn bombing?! Wow! I wonder if they have to be licensed to carry concealed knitting needles? Maybe they open-carried? :D
 
Fun busted

I was hunting elk in SW Washington last year, just below the landing I parked the rig and as soon as I got in the timber I had to download breakfast. WHen I was recovering my dignity, I looked back up the clearcut whence I had just walked through, and an old grey faced blacktail buck beyond growing big horns was in the open and had his head down but backing up like he was imagining the good old days of sparring, except there was no other buck sparring... he kept backing up the hill and defending himself against the ghosts of blacktail pasts... I was at a complete loss as to what in the devil was going on here... until I saw a flash of blue gray fur and a raunchy little coyote showed me enough that I was satisfied he wasn't the dairy farmer's cattle dog. I made that old buck's day and blasted that critter with an offhand shot at 45 yards. I've been in those woods for years and it's crazy I've never seen that old buck, but I'm sure he's seen me. Went up to check him out and the clearcut started sprouted a dozen orange vests it seemed, like I was the one who just found the herd. Nope! I hollered out. Just a song dog!
 
my step brother found an old shotgun in the woods once. when i was in college i found a Springfield xd in a creek, also the obligatory arrowheads in fields but thats really it. i'm sincerely jealous of the guys that have found ammo and explosives in abandoned buildings. and a sidenote on the ballons with notes and tags, i've often wondered what the people that find them think, we put tags on balloons every year for my cousin and i send notes off about 6 times a year for my daughter.
 
I found an old cannon from the Indian war it was just on the Idaho side of the Montana boarder looked like it fell off a cliff and was just left there. I also found an old cabin that had a table built into the wall and wedged in between two logs there was a 45 caliber pistol with no markings on it and it had a full stock and was about 13 inches long!
 
While elk hunting during rifle season in Colorado, which requires a blaze orange upper garment and blaze head cover. Was on a mountain in national forest, surrounded by miles of BLM land. Nearest private property was a ranch in a flat valley about 5 miles away. Came across a hunter wearing traditional red and black checked outfit - from head to toe. Guy said he'd been dropped off on the mountain by an outfitter. Also said he had shot a bull elk which ran to a cliff and disappeared. He did not try to find the elk. Said he was waiting for another bull to show up.

On the way out of the area, I let a game warden know about the guy.

Another year an acquaintance found a M94, 30-30, leaned against a tree.

Mike
 
Not hunting but out riding around in the desert, found an aerial bomb, later to be declared a MKXII practice bomb. Another time found a rusty air launched missile, all crumpled up like a squashed beer can.
 
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