What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

[43.6N]

I’ve heard that the old cars I’ve seen in woods are from miners and loggers who wanted the engine for their machinery, and it was easier to bring a whole vehicle than to just ship the engine.

 

[Dos Perros]

My kids and I stacked some rocks in the middle of nowhere in WY when they were very young. We had hopes that some day in the future we would go back and see them. 24 years later and some azzhole has kicked it over.

Maybe next time try installing a brilliantly metallic reflective obelisk.

 

[TXCO]

Found a corona floating in a lake in Idaho while in high school....

While in Alaska we stayed a couple nights in an old caribou herders building now used as a launch pad for parties and hunting by locals with some pretty amazing artifacts.

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[coloyooper]

Well what did they smell like?

 

[mcr-85]

I got thinking of another neat thing I found. While bow hunting elk in 2010 I found a couple trees with my grandpa's name carved in them. I have some other pics but they must be on my old computer. This tree was carved in 1933, when he was 18 years old. He wrote that he was herding sheep and drew a horse head there as well. I thought it was pretty neat.




In 2015 on my dads archery elk hunt I found another tree with my great grandpa's initials and last name, carved in 1925 if I remember right. I can't see the last part of the year in this picture. There were a few around there with my great uncles name carved there too. My dad told me that was a camp spot they used when they had the sheep herd up there.




That same hunt my dad picked up this arrowhead not far from here.

 

[Elkchaser24x7]

I got thinking of another neat thing I found. While bow hunting elk in 2010 I found a couple trees with my grandpa's name carved in them. I have some other pics but they must be on my old computer. This tree was carved in 1933, when he was 18 years old. He wrote that he was herding sheep and drew a horse head there as well. I thought it was pretty neat.

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In 2015 on my dads archery elk hunt I found another tree with my great grandpa's initials and last name, carved in 1925 if I remember right. I can't see the last part of the year in this picture. There were a few around there with my great uncles name carved there too. My dad told me that was a camp spot they used when they had the sheep herd up there.

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That same hunt my dad picked up this arrowhead not far from here.

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That is just plan cool that you have that history and connection with that place

 

[Patton]

still probably the coolest picture I have ever taken

That's from a Loggerhead shrike, aka butcher bird.

 

[Patton]

I spend a lot of time looking at the ground; probably have over 10 crown royal bags full of worked flint and arrowheads.

 

[Amudgett]

Turtle shell with no turtle

 

[Muleyczy]

MREs are what I thought as well but I haven’t seen them in dark brown bags like that. I have seen surplus 7.62 Nato in brown battle packs like that though.

Dark brown MREs were around in the 80’s 90’s


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[Archer96161]

I was hunting late season archery elk in Utah, I was climbing a slope headed for a saddle. A moose come over the saddle from the other side and passed me at about 40 yards. Cool encounter. When i reached the saddle, I noticed a fresh moose bed just on the other side of the ridge. I thought that was cool, I almost walked up on a bedded moose. Then I noticed something sticking out of the snow. An antler tip. In the snow at the bed was a matching set of antler that just fell off the moose I saw minutes earlier.

 

[chadcharb]

About a month ago I went pheasant hunting with a buddy and lost the benchmade mini crooked river my wife and son gave me for Father's day a few years back. I was sick about it because I'm a super sentimental person and I have seriously NEVER lost a knife. So Friday I go out with a different buddy to the same spot and stumbled on....... you guessed it! My mini crooked river! I was beyond stoked to have it back. I earned some karma somewhere lol

 

[couesbitten]

Found this back in 1999 (I think) while deer hunting in Utah. Fixed blade skinner and folding blade at the other end, nice knife, unique design. I'm assuming it was a gift to someone, because there are engraved initials under the tape on the side of the blade. If the knife is yours and you can tell me what the initials are and where you lost it, I'll send it to you.

 

[ethan]

About 8 years ago I was elk hunting in northern Utah in an area that was logged for railroad ties in the late 18tue and early 19th centuries. Stopped to grab some water and glass a little and when I looked to my left I saw this file stuck in a cedar tree by the tang. It was grown into the tree pretty solidly.

 

[GG9]

Solitude without loneliness and, quiet.

 

[hersh2209]

found this old water bucket in the dark timber 11,500 ft or so. Area was logged 100 years ago or so.. not sure if the tree grew up through the handle or what but whoever used it last was years and years ago. Tree was prob 20ft tall. They all grow slow at that elevation

 

[stoneramhunter]

Years ago i was horse packing in to sheep hunt. Around day 3 or 4 as i was crossing a ridge between the Prophet river and the Muskwa river I pushed thru some nasty bush. As i was cutting trail I came across a real old panyard that had cow hide on the exterior and was made of wood. Defiantly old i would think early 40's . I opened it up and found it had door and barn hinges in some sort of thick hard coating wrapped in wax paper. they looked as good as the day they were made. I realized this must have happened before the alaska highway was in. there was way to many for a hunting operation. so I surmised either the packer got turned around or they were part of the Bordeaux expedition and headed for his ranch , Im only guessing they came off the horse and he never found them.

 

[Pabst]

I got thinking of another neat thing I found. While bow hunting elk in 2010 I found a couple trees with my grandpa's name carved in them. I have some other pics but they must be on my old computer. This tree was carved in 1933, when he was 18 years old. He wrote that he was herding sheep and drew a horse head there as well. I thought it was pretty neat.

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In 2015 on my dads archery elk hunt I found another tree with my great grandpa's initials and last name, carved in 1925 if I remember right. I can't see the last part of the year in this picture. There were a few around there with my great uncles name carved there too. My dad told me that was a camp spot they used when they had the sheep herd up there.

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That same hunt my dad picked up this arrowhead not far from here.

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Why is there a man on a motorcycle riding up your pant leg?

 

[S.Clancy]

I found a one-hitter pipe made out of a deer antler out elk hunting. Gave it away to my buddy who could use such a thing...

 

[Northernpiker]

Found this back in 1999 (I think) while deer hunting in Utah. Fixed blade skinner and folding blade at the other end, nice knife, unique design. I'm assuming it was a gift to someone, because there are engraved initials under the tape on the side of the blade. If the knife is yours and you can tell me what the initials are and where you lost it, I'll send it to you.

MS and I lost it in Utah!!!!