Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
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03/27/20 03:06 PM
03/27/20 03:06 PM
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,911 Central MN, sort of old
MnMan
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I once saw the heel of a pair of waders sticking out of the water. I thought that they had maybe blown out of one of the rigs that the boat lift installers use. When I went to pull them out of the water I found that they were being worn by a guy who had just drowned that day and the air trapped in them had kept the heel afloat. I did not get to keep the waders ...they weren't my size anyway.
I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6819327
03/27/20 05:20 PM
03/27/20 05:20 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,687 Wisconsin
Green Bay
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OP
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Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: keystone]
#6819501
03/27/20 08:07 PM
03/27/20 08:07 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 939 Madawaska, Maine
Bryan Daigle
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He probably lost them by also being on hand and knees there. doing what you were doing years before. Who could have for seen that? You were meant to have them back.
Life member of Maine and National Trappers Associations.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6819961
03/28/20 01:44 AM
03/28/20 01:44 AM
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 15,789 Champaign County, Ohio.
KeithC
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Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body. Mushroom hunters find lots of bodies during morel season. Keith
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
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03/28/20 08:20 AM
03/28/20 08:20 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 6,537 Wi.
Diggerman
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Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body. Been there.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
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03/29/20 04:47 AM
03/29/20 04:47 AM
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akroper
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akroper
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Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body. Yeah, that, too. I just didn't want to be the one to bring it up. Still gives me bad vibes, because the guy died doing the exact same thing in the exact place that I'd done dozens of times. Could easily have been me.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Cragar]
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03/29/20 06:32 AM
03/29/20 06:32 AM
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Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 10,404 Northeast Oklahoma
Mike in A-town
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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. What were you doing upside down on a dirt road at 35 mph? Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
Vladimir Lenin
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6821360
03/29/20 07:12 AM
03/29/20 07:12 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
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potter co. p.a.
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buddy and a friend found a body on the river bank tuesday when fishing.9 people arrested for murder over it.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6821365
03/29/20 07:18 AM
03/29/20 07:18 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 1,150 Valders, WI
Alex the dog
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Here is another “find” for a coworker of mine.
It happened about 15 years ago, I was driving home from work and at a 4 way intersection I see my coworker pull up opposite of me. We both turn the same direction and pull over a few hundred feet later to BS. He tells me about the used Stihl saw he just picked up and was heading home to try it out. Go to look in the back of his truck with the tailgate down and no saw! He was ticked! We jump in his truck, turn around and head back to the dealer he bought it from. In a small village where he turned off one county highway onto another there sat his Stihl saw on the curb. Pull over to get it and an older gent was sitting on his porch and comments about how long it was going to take for someone to come back looking. My friend showed him the sales receipt and on our way we went with saw in back and tailgate up. Still laugh about that one.
Dave
Forever in debt to my Father who introduced me to trapping. May I be half the man he was.
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6821473
03/29/20 09:18 AM
03/29/20 09:18 AM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,687 Wisconsin
Green Bay
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OP
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PS. Found the rest of the Glock yesterday. Barrel had been removed. Police spent three hours with me combing the area for the rest. Got a call before going to bed that it was used in a homicide.
Not sure if people read the original post again so posting here.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: Strange finds
[Re: Green Bay]
#6821480
03/29/20 09:26 AM
03/29/20 09:26 AM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,447 New York border
Cragar
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Green Bay , cool on the update. ( everyone look at OP's 1st post ) Hopefully they get a conviction on it.
Very important find.
I've been called out with my FD on occasion to do a mass search ( forming a line all shoulder to shoulder) to search an area looking for firearms/evidence with the police.
Glad you found the magazine in the first place , bet the police are happy with you.
NRA benefactor member
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