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

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For some reason I always find Mylar Balloons. Happy Birthday seems to be the theme! Anyone else find Mylar Balloons? Ironically its where I find the elk too. Go figure.
I have found those in every place I have ever hunted. Alaska, Arizona,Montana etc etc. Drives me NUTS!!
 
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Cool or weird, i dunno.

I was deer hunting south of Arivaca Arizona down along the Mexican border and I found a kids backpack full of bricks of cocaine.

I’m assuming it was cocaine I suppose it could’ve been meth, some kind of white powder in brown wax paper.....probably about 30#.

I tried to give the border patrol the coordinates but they wanted nothing to do with it.
I believe they measure it in kilos …. 😂
 

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A steam locomotive in the Panama jungle. This was in the '80s. I guess the locomotive must have dated from the late 1800s/early 1900s.

No evidence of tracks, and I couldn't tell where the railroad had been. The jungle had reclaimed the area. Just a locomotive in middle of the forest.
 

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I hope you returned those kids back to their owners … they seem healthy for finding them out in the woods.
Country kids can survive. Now they’re both in high school busy with sports, plus granddaughter shoots pistol competitions.
 

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Should preface that this wasn’t really Backcountry but on some in-laws property that is back there.
 
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Found several old homesteads, here is a cabin on the US/Canadian border, not sure if it’s an old trapper cabin or what
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Cool place in AZ with the gun ports in the side of the house pretty deep into NF on a cattle camp
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Found an intact bear skull this past season, Hayes guessed age in the teens. First bear dead head I’ve found.
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I grew up in rural TN, it was very common to run across really old graves in the woods, occasional family plots, from early 1800s
 
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Always wondered how old this is. Looks like it would've been there for a long time.
 

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