What all have you brought back from a hunt that you didn't take with you?
I took home some Dirt from Africa, sea shells from Laredo, concrete dirt clod from Solana, a broadhead I found near Pecos TX, a friends arrow from a previous hunt in SC, fat lighter wood from FL, a very bizzar pine knot from CO, a beautiful rock from Cohutta, and the best was a lost chocolate Labrador Pup from Kennym's who spend 10 years with me.
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Dropped antlers and skulls.
Thanks for the reminder....
Bobcat skull from The Paradise.
Obsidian arrow head I was stalking Muledeer Buck and was on a trail looked down there it was to this day I think he was doing the something.
Small rocks that were used for ballast when ships were made from wood. I find these in every inlet in the southeast. Some of the piles have sprouted palm trees and become islands no bigger than a living room. I've hosted many bowhunters to hunt wild hogs in these saltwater bay habitats and gave a few a rock to take home with their hogs.
Awesome dog, she had a great life with you all. :thumbsup:
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Could be nothing, but it caught my eye while I was bowhunting with my brother-in-law in the Gila in New Mexico in the '80's. Looks to be flaked on the back. The divot on the front fits my thumb perfectly. Notice how my middle finger fits nicely in the slot, and there is a place on the back that you can't see where my index finger fits. I believe the projection you can see over my index finger once extended around the top and was a knife blade. Who knows?
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small dry wild gourds from the mountains of S. Arizona, multiple shards of old discarded broken indian pottery from an old homestead in Arizona, a gifted set of elk ivory from a guide in Wyoming, red sand from Botswana, chips and chunks of tourquise found on the ground in the Navaho reservation north Arizona, Metis banner from Canada, set of bison teeth from S.Colorado, duiker skin decorated bag and ostrich shell bead necklace from Namibia
A bucket full of memories.
Other people's trash...mostly empty beer cans...about 10 years ago I found an orange juice can from the 60's. Saved it for some reason...I guess it's just to dang much work to pack out an empty can after you've refreshed urself :dunno:
I have a whole bunch of memories, but have also came home with extra flashlights that I have found...makes me wonder how they found their way out without them??? I just got home from a quick trip to Ohio to hunt with my buddy, again a lot of memories, high temps and low deer movement. But I did bring a small rock home for my wife for her flower garden, something I have always done for her, she has rocks from every state that I have been to, to hunt. I also brought some small stone for one of my step grandkids that like to collect stones and polish them. Can't wait to see her face when I give them to her!!!
Jason
I have some big chunks of quartz from my first moose hunt west of Thunder Bay, a turtle shell from the same place and a box turtle shell from Ohio. I also have a couple of turkey calls made by buddies from turkey camp.
Dave.
I have 2 chunks of copper ore that I found below my first treestand location at ShrewHaven years ago. Interestingly, that is also Ron LaClairs first camping spot when he started hunting there. His teepee poles are still there.
I'm always packing some kind of junk home from hunts. Off the top of my head....I have stone points found on hunts in TX, MT, and CO. A big pandanus palm nut form Australia NT, pebbles from the shore of the Arctic Ocean from my musk ox hunt, porcupine quills I picked up in South Africa, a shed cow caribou antler I picked up on one hunt to the northern slope of the Brooks Range, and a piece of quartz I picked up on a hill where I nearly had to shoot a grizzly with a 12 guage on another hunt. Fossilized wood from a hunt in AZ, a chunk of old spruce that a beaver chewed into an hourglass shape then gave up on from a lake in northwest AK that we named "No Moose Lake".....all kinds of other junk 😀
R
Two different mature whitetail skulls that had shed. Either wolf or winter kill. Otherwise just other friends hunting arrow/dated signed by them.
When I lived in the Adirondacks, I found an old 2-man 6ft crosscut saw leaning against a tree. Both handles had rotted off and a bit rusted. This was in 1998 and wonder how long it was there as the area wasn't logged off based on the tree growth. I bet it has some stories. The only other eerie thing is I found a 10" cast aluminum crucifix, the type used on caskets. No cemeteries around. Kept it as I couldn't just leave it...maybe good/bad luck.
Ok Kenny, I give. What is it?
A guy I worked with said he used to haul semi loads of em out to mines, they somehow used them to separate gold and the other leftover stuff they didn't want? That's all I know about it except it's 1.5" diameter , weighs 11 oz and a magnet will stick to it. :biglaugh:
Ha! interesting
Man would that be a list :biglaugh:
Lots of crow & turkey feathers....flint , stones , old bottles, old arrows . (This year I found one of my arrows from a deer I killed 2 yrs ago and recovered but couldn't find the arrow. Still straight and the broadhead pretty sharp ;)
The private lands I hunt don't see a lot of trash . What little I do see leaves with me. Fishing ....lets just say I pickup a LOT of waterway litter/trash any given year. Fishing is when I have the best flint/arrowhead finds......
A cane walking stick and arrow heads from our SC/GA hog hunts. Half a dozen sheds, several groundhog teeth, and a turkey leg bone w/spur, all found locally.
The door of an antique wood burning stove (that's absolutely the only thing that was left of the cabin - taken with permission).
Old vintage soft drink bottles (a stash buried by lumberjacks - I found them while tracking a bear in the middle of nowhere).
Old foothold traps (from a Cree relative).
Old square nails (from rotted wood that was a structure at one time).
An old kerosene lantern (from my long deceased Dad's cabin).
The medium skull and rack of a 4x4 whitetail with a drop tine (found near railroad tracks).
Many sheds (among them a 16 point moose shed found on a frozen creek where the moose slipped and knocked one side of his rack hard - it came off prematurely so I never did find the other side - that also happens to be the largest moose antler I've ever seen in this region).
There's more... and I call myself a collector... not a hoarder, LOL!
Gosh...almost anything I come across, skulls, sheds, seeds, arrow heads, bones, musket balls, old bottles, box turtles, feathers, interesting looking rocks.....man the list can go on and on.....whatever I see and fits in a pocket.
shed antlers
the pelvic bone of an armadillo
jawbone of a hog
white tail skull, scapula, etc.
box turtle shell
flint tools and points
etc.
If it interests me, I will pick it up and look it over. Sometimes I will keep it, but most of the time I put whatever it is back where I found it.