Found an old fishing rod leaning up against a tree. Was a long way from any water.

yes and no

it isn't on the books , but some of our relatives took part in it while pruning orcharads

everyone who had a hand in it of my relations has passed now so we can talk about it.

Kinda weird a guess, found a dead head few years back. Turned out to be a deer a famous pop country singer shot with a local outfitter and never could find it.

When I was trapping In Canada, I found a 30-30 and a Reminton 870 shotgun leaning against a tree. They had been there a long time.

Found a large garbage bag of dried weed way back in on an old bush trail when hunting in september one year.
Took me and a buddy several months to smoke it all.

I found pot growing inside chicken wire cages a couple times. Not me, but a downstate fellow was trout fishing back in a local remote swamp a few years back and he ran into a commercial sized grow operation.....had camo netting strung over it, and a well equipped tent camp with enough supplies to have been set up by several men. They had an elaborate kitchen tent that had strings of dried chili peppers hanging up. It was believed to be a cartel operation. The police used helicopters to go in and take care of stuff. Considering this ain't Humboldt County, California I was always surprised at the amount of weed grown back in the day. Had an old buddy that was on a multi-agency drug task force team that would fly in choppers several times a summer/fall to search for pot growing in corn fields, woods, etc. I asked him how often they found it and he said literally every flight they made found some.

Hope you found a truckload of potato chips too

Have a tree in my swamp with a crosscut saw grown into it And along a river bank a what I believe is a stevens crackshot 22 or similar gun grown into a large spruce pretty well dilapidated

Found a suicide...in a car on a 90 degree day, cops came and immediately sent out for snacks..

Found a rusty 38 special dredging crabs out in the bay....

I found a kids doll way out in the middle of nowhere..
It was a kids baby doll..scared me to death,, I actually thought it was a dead baby.
Still don’t know how it wound up were it was.

I found a skeleton of a deer in a crotch of a tree. I figured the deer jumped over this log and landed in the tree.

Many years ago, my buddy and I were squirrel hunting in the Allegan State Forest. We came upon a cardboard box that had a litter of dead puppies in it.
Really sad, don't know how people can do that.

You mean you just misplaced the weed. LOL

Rotted Filson vest hanging in a tree.

Did they let you keep the gun?

Those who've mentioned finding the deceased ...the public areas just North of Lawton, OK.,( The. Shady 580) I like to hunt and fish, I anticipate coming across a body. Every time. Between the criminal activity and prevalent drug use, I'm surprised I haven't by now.

An old stihl ms 290.
The remains of an old timer that lived in a bus with his 8 dogs. Only 5 of the dogs were still alive.

How about finding this homemade boat 1/2 mile from the nearest road and about 100 yds from the creek on the high-bank. Looked like two old car hoods welded together, even appeared to have a transom for an outboard?? Go figure!
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Car hood boat was pretty awesome in its day i bet lol

I run pointing dogs for Grouse and Woodcock. One spring day I was out hoping to find a few woodcock during there spring migration. We were almost back to the road when my dog went on point, but he was acting real different. He would point then take a few steps then back up. He did that several times before I got to him. That's when I saw it . There was a child's blanket wrapped around a body and stuffed into a brush pile. I collared my dog and stood there for a long minute before heading for the truck and drive to a spot for cell service. I walked about 50 yds down the road towards my truck before stopping. I stood there for a bit before I headed back ( I had to know). Finally I took my pocket knife and cut a slit in the blanket. The thick black hair was from someones Black lab. I still after 20 years think about it when I head to the woods.