Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818821
03/27/20 12:26 AM
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Posts: 6,341 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
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You guys let exciting lives. I think the most I ever found was a 20 in a bar's parking lot one afternoon. Green Bay, you must have an interesting place where you go walking...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818847
03/27/20 03:32 AM
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akroper
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akroper
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I very seldom find stuff, but out hunting several years ago in one day I found a full box of 300 WinMag cartridges, a pair of Minolta binoculars, one of those bug jackets in my size, and a sizable baggie of weed. Shot up the 300 shells, wore the bug jacket, used the binoculars to spot a big moose, and .... my brother stole the weed from me. "You don't need that," he says as he grabbed it away from me. He later gave me $250. He said that was half of what he sold it for.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818872
03/27/20 06:29 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,110 Central Pennsylvania
Nittany Lion
Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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I can't recall of ever finding anything of value, I lost a hundred dollar bill twice buying traps or trapping paper. I did not realize it until I got home. I called each person but they claimed they did not find it.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818883
03/27/20 06:53 AM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,684 Wisconsin
Green Bay
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Thanks for the stories guys. I have a theory that trappers find more things because we are always looking for sign and that carrys over into our daily lives.
Brian
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818887
03/27/20 07:00 AM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 6,412 east central WI
k snow
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Thanks for the stories guys. I have a theory that trappers find more things because we are always looking for sign and that carrys over into our daily lives.
Brian There is a lot of truth in that statement. Hunters to a degree, trappers even more so. At least that's what I tell my wife when an attractive young lady walks by.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818916
03/27/20 07:43 AM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,435 New York border
Cragar
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Thanks for the stories guys. I have a theory that trappers find more things because we are always looking for sign and that carrys over into our daily lives.
Brian I think that is very true. Trappers as a bunch are very observant. A couple of the wallets I have found were in the road and I've spotted them at speed and knew exactly what they were at that speed. I found a stopwatch upside down at 35mph on a dirt road. Found a silver charm bracelet in the sand with just 3/8" of it sticking out on a beach. Amazing what your eyes can see when they are open.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818973
03/27/20 08:59 AM
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Rubee
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Rubee
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One winter while hunting rabbits I walked through a brush filled swamp on the ice rabbit hunting. Swamp was only about an acre in size and about 75 yards off a road. Saw a gun stock sticking out of a clump of tag alders and pulled out what looked like a WWII era Japanese rifle. Been there many years so it was total junk.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6818975
03/27/20 09:00 AM
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Posts: 5,569 La Crosse, WI
Macthediver
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I think for me being a curious kid and always moving was start of it. I can't even remember all things I've found over years. I think it's kind of like looking for morels. I always tell folks you have to have your eyes right. I think a lot of times it comes down to looking for noticing what is out of place. I can spot nuts and bolt long road sometime driving 65 mph.. I'm not so sure what is most interesting thing..I do recall stopping with my brother by a spring along road to get a drink. He was driving and I wasn't old enough to drive so was maybe 14?? I looked down for some reason see a coin picked it up..Then see another and another..brother starts looking too. We picked up couple dollars worth change on road and few small bills in grass in ditch. No idea where it came from must been someone else stopped by the spring dropped their piggy bank? Being in the search and recovery I'm always looking. Last thing though?? Was out fishing in boat few weeks back dog start fussing figure she needs break. Head up to island get out both dog and I pee.. walk a bit stretch my legs dog rams around.. I see little silver glint 6 inches water or so right where wave breaks on shore. Raccoon in me kicks in and I reach in water dig out the sparkly..Here is what it was. So I wonder what camper, or murder dropped it and why or how there. not like something flood would move to far??? nothing expensive or special yet interesting where it was.. Mac
"Never Forget Which Way Is Up"
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Re: Strange finds
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03/27/20 09:40 AM
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Rubee
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Rubee
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One fall I was bow hunting in a large corn field. Sneaking along looking for bedded deer. Started following a large track down one of the rows and found a stone arrow head next to a track. Made me wonder if someone else was deer hunting several hundred years ago in what was probably a forest then.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6819046
03/27/20 10:09 AM
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jeff karsten
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Found a pair of Nikon Binoculars on my farm while turkey hunting Couldn't catch up to the owner to give them back
olden tyred
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Re: Strange finds
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#6819073
03/27/20 10:34 AM
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I seem to find more knives than anything. Most of them are rusted junk by the time I get to them but once I found a really nice Case Knife in a leather sheath that I have got some good use out of. The best thing I ever found was a climbing deer stand, gun case , with a gun in it !. It was off the side of a Forest Service road at the head of a old logging road. Gun deer season was the weekend before I assume someone had loaded up a deer and just forgot the gun and stand. It was a 1100 20 ga . I ended up giving the gun and the stand to different kids that were getting into hunting .
One morning on the way to work it was pouring down rain. I saw a pair of waders in the middle of the road. I stopped and picked them up. Used them for back up and for guys that wanted to hunt but didnt have a pair of waders. When they were so full of holes that I couldnt use them any more I took them back to Cabelas and got $120 credit !
Gary Bartlow
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6819113
03/27/20 11:30 AM
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Posts: 15,718 MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
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I've found a lot of things metal detecting. One thing I'll never forget was finding a boy's class ring. It had the school, year of graduation, and initials on it. I called the school asking if they could help me find the owner? I told her the year, initials, and that it was a boy's ring.
After a number of phone calls, I was able to locate the owner. I called him and told him I had found his class ring. He could stop by my office to pick it up. About a week went by before he finally stopped in. I gave him the ring. He said his mother had purchased it for him and he really didn't care if he got one or not. I didn't want anything for it, but a Thank You would have been nice. He must have mentioned it to his mother because she stopped by a week or so later with some fresh bread she had baked.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never let the dumbest ones lead the pack.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6819154
03/27/20 12:22 PM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 2,686 Alaska
drasselt
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I think I found a body in a bag. Ashes anyway. A fairly stout plastic bag that had been partially torn open. Found it along the river while trapping. Seemed careless to me. Wasn't sure what to do with it but the bag itself seemed like trash that didn't belong in the river so I tossed it all under a spruce sapling. Probably still there. Maybe it's somebodys dog. Either way not cool to me.
you can vote your way into socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out.
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Re: Strange finds
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#6819247
03/27/20 02:58 PM
03/27/20 02:58 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 4,039 Otsego, MI 66
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Found some money once $ 100.00 Found a Fishing pole & reel. Really good one. A Dead man once and a Pig Casterator Pig castrator, nice mole!
Member NTA, MTPCA, FTA, NRA, MUCC 2 Cor. 5:17
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