one year at the Minnesota stat fair i found three 20 dollar bills all different places about a hour apart from eachother.

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...

When I was a kid, I once found my arse with both hands.
My dad had mentioned one time, when I wasn't really paying attention, that I could not.
Proved him wrong.

Fellow my brother knew was up getting a Christmas tree in northern Colorado. Driving down the snow packed road and found a 50 caliber TC muzzle loader in the middle of the road. He asked my brother for $50. Couldn't get his wallet out fast enough. He used it for ten years, before he passed on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Found a pair of Nikon Binoculars on my farm while turkey hunting Couldn't catch up to the owner to give them back

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 !

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.

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.

Same farm, different field. I just nosed the corn head into the field when I seen 4wheeler tracks going through the rows. Crap! I thought. Wonder how far they went? Well, it wud’nt too far, cause there set a John Deere Gator in the middle of the field. I got out and low and behold the keys was in it! Brand new with less than 30 hours on it. Started her up and backed out. A lil research confirmed it was leased by a local high school and was stolen a week prior and dumped in my field.

I tend to lose a lot more stuff than I find.

Zim

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!