Strange Find while hunting Elk on Public Land

[Deplorable77]

It amazes me the time people will spend carving shit into trees

 

[stonewall]

i'm guessing someone did this to see if a thread would pop up on a hunting forum somewhere...

 

[jodorouse]

Those One Picture a Day posts are neat but I think there should be picture post of random stuff found in the mountains. I’m not talking about random 40 year old bean cans either.


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[Wrench]

Since it came up...

These are all over the St. Joe in Idaho. I think I've found 7 of them in some glorious locations.

 

[three5x5s]

If you found that marker,you probably weren't too far from this 1 either. I believe that area was a hot bed for elk camps back in the day before they closed off access to vehicles, also a lot of cowboys pushing cattle through there.

Could them cowboys been packing 40 S&Ws???Not sure when they closed off the area to vehicles but the 40 hasent been around that long. Thanks for posting, makes you want to see the other 6 at least.

 

[jodorouse]

Could them cowboys been packing 40 S&Ws???Not sure when they closed off the area to vehicles but the 40 hasent been around that long. Thanks for posting, makes you want to see the other 6 at least.

It was a new scrape, the sap was probably less than a week old. The tree hadn’t had enough time to heal at all. I am thinking it was the last week. I do want to see the other 6. I wonder how many experience points I would get towards my mountain man badge for that.


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[jmez]

No picture but I found an old mattress spring on top of a huge rock at about 9500 feet in the Bighorns this year. Long way from a road and in a nasty mess of huge boulders and deadfall.

 

[spike camp]

Since it came up...

These are all over the St. Joe in Idaho. I think I've found 7 of them in some glorious locations. View attachment 221790

Looks like a Blue bird box

 

[Wrench]

Looks like a Blue bird box

The unique thing about them is that they are all labeled "our Bahamas"

 

[TheGrayRider]

Someone named Ryan Tuttle apparently was dreaming of big elk here.

 

[jodorouse]

View attachment 221841Someone named Ryan Tuttle apparently was dreaming of big elk here.

I like what he was thinking about but but guessing he wasn’t seeing them while carving that.


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[justin84]

Could turn this into a “stuff you found in the Bighorns” thread. Came across this one in a place that didn’t seem very accessible by vehicle.

 

[Jbehredt]

I told Phil what I thought of his tree carving....

 

[Deplorable77]

Don't take your Jeep down a single track. And absolutely do not try recovering it with a skid steer. Both ended up at the bottom of the same canyon 20' apart .

 

[KineKilla]

These are the kind of markings I prefer to see but we see plenty of the other kind as well.

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[Jahvette20]

I found this in central CO this year. Made from corrugated plastic like yard sign material. Any ideas?

 

[wytx]

If you found that marker,you probably weren't too far from this 1 either. I believe that area was a hot bed for elk camps back in the day before they closed off access to vehicles, also a lot of cowboys pushing cattle through there.

That is a 7.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I found this one last year in CO. I find it hilarious that the cave paintings dating back 30-40,000 years ago are pretty similar. You read the academic articles about them and they claim it represents fertility or some other abstract symbolism, when really, some dudes just like to draw naked ladies on stuff, apparently always have and always will. Maybe they haven’t evolved much since then?

 

[danarnold]

I've seen a lot of the neked ladies carvings in the vaquero spanking grounds

 

[Scott-12]

Interesting finds