What's the most valuable thing you have found hunting?

[<cascadehunter>]

Reading through the post about most valuable thing you have lost......

On the flip side

The most valuable thing I have found was a leica rangefinder last year. I was in the middle of nowhere....no hunters to be seen.....and not on a trail......I went to sit down on a boulder and a rangefinder was just sitting there. Batteries were low but still functioning.

You weren’t by chance in the cascades in WA were you…? One of my buddies sat down on a boulder for a rest and left behind a leica RF and his wife’s kindle e-reader two seasons ago. Day one of the hunt too

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Remington 870. Whoever it belong to wasn't aware of the three round max law. We drove around to a few other camp sites asking if anyone recently lost anything. Not finding the owner, it went in the truck and to this day in the gun safe. I also found a black lab out by itself. he got right in the truck. I eventually found the owner after about a hour of searching. Much more valuable than the 870.

 

[NorCal 707]

Reminton 700 30-06. The guy apparently rested it against the tire of the truck. They had lunch, loaded up and left. The rifle fell off the tire and away they went. Luckily, it didn't get run over by the truck and I was able to catch up to the crew down the road about 10 miles.

 

[OregonSteeler]

Clarity

 

[Wprinkle]

In colorado, I found an old Republic of Texas marker. Not really valuable but cool as shit.

 

[Catchfish]

Crushing down the beach, headed out for a 3 day duck hunt. I spied some beach trash that was blue in the high tide Surfline. We went and dug it up and it was an inflated alpaca raft full of gravel. It had a dry bag clipped onto it and a small dry in it containing a cell phone. I was able to plug the phone in and call the last number that was from out of state.
Ends up being the guys sister, she hadn’t heard from him either. He was fine but had dumped his boat in a class 4-5 river about 50 miles away and had lost it. He drove down in a few weeks and picked up his boat, cell phone, blue tooth speaker and some clothes.
I believe he brought me 2 bottles of wine.

 

[TheGrayRider]

I found a large 10k gold high school class ring on a small bench next to a water faucet at a remote unlighted, primitive campground in southern Indiana. I went around and asked the other campers if they lost any gold jewelry and they all looked at me like I was a fool.

I eventually called the high school office in Kentucky on the ring and the principal knew the graduate who misplaced his senior ring on a camping trip. I mailed the ring to the principal and never heard another word. Hopefully, the owner got their gold class ring back.

Happy hunting, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.