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

[BuzzH]

I didn't find this, but my grandfather did...a stone pipe that he found when working in a garden in Hellgate canyon near Missoula, Montana.

The moccasins in the picture were his, made for him when he was born, by their nearest neighbor, a Native American family from Ronan Montana. The moccasins were made in early 1916.

 

[Beendare]

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.

 

[gobblinglawyer]

While turkey hunting in Southeast GA I’ve come across a couple of old liquor stills from the prohibition days. Apparently the revenue agents had found them and dropped a stick of dynamite in there to render them inoperable. One was a really cool “submarine style” tank while the other was more traditional.

 

[MallardSX2]

Found this 20 years ago on national forest property about as far as you can get from any road. It was well hidden and well supplied. "Kaboomtown"

 

[ShedHead20]

Some stirrups and a old horse jaw bone with in a few yards of each other. This was a few thousand feet above and off a minimally traveled trail in a Washington Wilderness. My guess is a pack string broke apart and this guy headed over the mountain and didn't come back.

 

[KClark]

About 2 miles in is the wreckage of a rare B-17C that broke apart mid-air in October of 1941.

 

[Maverick1]

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

Myself

 

[Staroutdoorsport]

Petroglyphs

 

[MallardSX2]

Found these one time as well.





I have the tip of the propeller and the steering wheel from the plane incorporated into a coffee table I made years later along with some sweet matching shed antlers I found lying three feet apart. Had to hold my breath and go under water to get that prop and it took forever to cut it off with a dull hacksaw.

I have been offered a LOT of money for that coffee table. I just cant part with it. lol

 

[Antarctica]

Wow - super cool! Beech 18! Very sexy aircraft. Very expensive these days.

Super cool coffee table too!

 

[AK Troutbum]

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.

Okay, so what are the coordinates?


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[Beendare]

Okay, so what are the coordinates?


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Well anyone thats been through there will tell you there is stuff strewn about for miles. Clothes, water bottles, all kinds of stuff.

I was a little freaked out as I was solo with only my bow a mile from the road........and it was in a little encampment type deal in a dry wash. I wasn't sure if it had been there long...or if someone had left quickly and was watching me through the thick brush...so I skedaddled. Had to be some big bucks worth of drugs....also could have been a booby trap for all I know.

The way the Border patrol has that covered just about anyone coming out will be stopped....so even thinking about going in and taking something like that is rolling the dice with a 20 year prison sentence...unless you are an illegal....then they ship you back. Those border guys don't mess around down there...a thankless job in this political environment. They told us we were nuts for not packing a backup weapon.

I ran into a drug mule the next day that swung a rusty revolver in my direction until I raised my bow......I decided to hunt a different spot after that.

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[AK Troutbum]

Well anyone thats been through there will tell you there is stuff strewn about for miles. Clothes, water bottles, all kinds of stuff.

I was a little freaked out as I was solo with only my bow a mile from the road........and it was in a little encampment type deal in a dry wash. I wasn't sure if it had been there long...or if someone had left quickly and was watching me through the thick brush...so I skedaddled. Had to be some big bucks worth of drugs....also could have been a booby trap for all I know.

The way the Border patrol has that covered just about anyone coming out will be stopped....so even thinking about going in and taking something like that is rolling the dice with a 20 year prison sentence...unless you are an illegal....then they ship you back. Those border guys don't mess around down there...a thankless job in this political environment. They told us we were nuts for not packing a backup weapon.

I ran into a drug mule the next day that swung a rusty revolver in my direction until I raised my bow......I decided to hunt a different spot after that.

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Sounds like fun....not!


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[El Gavilan]

Well anyone thats been through there will tell you there is stuff strewn about for miles. Clothes, water bottles, all kinds of stuff.

I was a little freaked out as I was solo with only my bow a mile from the road........and it was in a little encampment type deal in a dry wash. I wasn't sure if it had been there long...or if someone had left quickly and was watching me through the thick brush...so I skedaddled. Had to be some big bucks worth of drugs....also could have been a booby trap for all I know.

The way the Border patrol has that covered just about anyone coming out will be stopped....so even thinking about going in and taking something like that is rolling the dice with a 20 year prison sentence...unless you are an illegal....then they ship you back. Those border guys don't mess around down there...a thankless job in this political environment. They told us we were nuts for not packing a backup weapon.

I ran into a drug mule the next day that swung a rusty revolver in my direction until I raised my bow......I decided to hunt a different spot after that.

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Before I retired in 2010 I was the refuge manager for the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge down there. The refuge is about 5 miles wide along the Mexican border and goes about 25 miles north. We mapped out over 1300 miles of foot trails through the refuge and we used to get 100 abandoned vehicles per year that got stuck, broke down rolled or were just abandoned. We also got about $30 million in drugs smuggled through the refuge every year. We had government vehicles stolen, refuge housing broken into and myriad other issues. Once they built the pedestrian fence, 20' high for about 6 miles along our boundary it helped a lot. Those sites you found with all the clothes, garbage, etc, are layup sites where the illegals and smugglers hole up to rest or meet their transportation. My 6 law enforcement officers stayed busy and coordinated heavily with border patrol. We closed the southern mile along the border to public entry due to the danger. I don't miss that one bit, but it is much better now.

Sent from the Arizona desert

 

[kabarNC]

Finally found a whole clear arrowhead!

 

[ceejay]

Finally found a whole clear arrowhead!

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That's cool. I have always wanted to find an arrow head. Maybe one day.

 

[Medic727]

I found another hunters wallet on a trail about 10 miles into some Colorado wilderness. He lived a town away so it was easy to return.

 

[FLAK]

Solitude.

 

[Plumber]

Found an old wooden sleigh in the middle of nowhere that was used for logging with horses back in the day. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera

 

[Gunnersdad49]

Memorials, a .44mag with the round under the hammer fired, a couple of crashed airplanes, couple of bodies, some sheepdogs that had puppies and tried to eat me, binoculars, Ford fairlane a LONG way from a road.