What's the weirdest thing you've found while hunting?

[trophy-1]

came across a guy with no legssitting at a tree when i was scouting one day it was very cold i walked by he never moved or spoke.

[devil-dog]

found a dead doe, which had been birthing a yearling.
she and the yearling were both dead.
first time I've ever seen anything like that..........

[nwgahunter]

Originally Posted by trophy-1

came across a guy with no legssitting at a tree when i was scouting one day it was very cold i walked by he never moved or spoke.

I got drawn for a hunt in Chattanooga at the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant years ago and it rained off and on the entire weekend. TWRA had a trailer they pulled around and picked you up. I was in the trailer when they stopped and a guy with no legs came scooting along and then pulled himself on the back of the trailer. He looked at everyone as serious as could be and said "This rain really chaps my butt." Everyone in the trailer started looking around at each other and then started laughing so hard we probably ran every deer off of that place. Everytime I think about it I laugh out loud.

[Wild Turkey]

2 dead mexicans-shot to death in douglas co.

[benellisbe]

Originally Posted by deerslaya1129

Saw a peacock walking through the woods in Southern Michigan.

My dad claims he saw a Panther near Clarks Hill Lake, in Lincoln County.

I used to hunt in a club up there that borderd clarks hill and corps property. One of the members swore he had seen one. I never saw any tracks or anything that would lead me to believe it... but he was convinced he had...

[buckslayjay]

just last week i was hanging a stand and found a dead cyote with a whole squirrel hanging out of his mouth, must have tried to eat it in one bite and choked

[ilykh]

One morning it was terrible foggy.. I noticed tail lights down this pipeline I was going to hunt.
I was nervous to even go down there being that I'm a girl & all alone in the middle of nowhere (:]) But it was some drunk guy that had been beat up bad...telling some story how "their still chasing me" Needless to say, I called the cops but he was gone before they left the donut shop! That hunting trip was wack....

[Arrowhead95]

I got drawn for a hunt in Chattanooga at the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant years ago and it rained off and on the entire weekend. TWRA had a trailer they pulled around and picked you up. I was in the trailer when they stopped and a guy with no legs came scooting along and then pulled himself on the back of the trailer. He looked at everyone as serious as could be and said "This rain really chaps my butt." Everyone in the trailer started looking around at each other and then started laughing so hard we probably ran every deer off of that place. Everytime I think about it I laugh out loud.

nwgahunter >> That made me laugh out loud too. At least that guy was out there enjoying himself. Good for him.

[aujack]

Originally Posted by Wild Turkey

2 dead mexicans-shot to death in douglas co.

seriously?

[aujack]

this is a story that happened to a friend but its pretty freaky.

One day a friend and her daughter who was about 8 months old at the time were driving on a county highway in Chattahoochee Cnty where hardly any cars ever traveled.she had noticed fresh tire tracks leading down into a STEEP and i mean STEEP revine. so she parked and got out of the car and looked down and saw that the car had crashed and started to yell to see if anyone was there/alive. she got no response. so she started to crawl down the the revine where the car was but decided that it wasnt safe and that she probably wouldnt be able to get back up. So she walks back up to her car and sees a man wearing camo trying to get into her car and she starts yelling at him to get away, frantically the man took of running and hid behind a rock and was still visible to my friend and she asked if he was ok and told him that she could see him but he just crouched and acted like he was well hidden. so she is very freaked out at this point so she gets in her car and drives off and calls the police to report it. never heard anything else about it but if she hadn't of locked her car she probably wouldnt have a daughter anymore.

She thinks the man may have been drinking and didnt want to get caught.

[gunner10]

i came across a couple doing their stuff in the bbushes lol

[kingofthehill]

Originally Posted by trophy-1

came across a guy with no legssitting at a tree when i was scouting one day it was very cold i walked by he never moved or spoke.

you should of him

[tdot527]

i thought i came across a deer once ....thats pretty freaky where i hunt

[rodney carpenter]

worked with a guy, he raises prize winning coon dogs, any how he swears the only lure he uses is his wifes used tampons. he said she would put them in a zip lock bag, he used rubber gloves after that. i think ill stick with tinks seems more sanitary, i think...lol

[cmshoot]

In Ohio I found a rowboat, complete with oars, in the middle of the woods. Farm country in Pataskala, OH. It was a long ways from any body of water that would float a rowboat. It had been there a long time and was fairly rotted.

While training at Camp Lejeune NC in the Corps, me and my spotter were scouting in a swamp near LZ Blue Jay. Found an old orange/white training 'chute up in a tree; old, torn and rotted. A short distance away, we stopped to take a break near a body of stagnant water. I kept eyeballing a "stick" protruding from the edge of the water. Looked really regular. I grabbed it and pulled an M16 (not an M16A1, but an honest M16) out of the mud. Like a dumb A, I turned it in. CID had me and Ernie take 'em back out to the spot where I found it, to look for remains and such. We showed 'em the parachute, but that was all we found.

CID told me later that the rifle was an experimental model, in between the M16 and the M16A1. Only issued to a limited number of troops for field-testing and evaluation. This particular rifle was shipped to an Army unit in southern California. No idea how it ended up where it was.

BTW, the stock, handguards and pistol grip still looked new. The bolt was rusted solid into the chamber, and the front sight and ejection port cover were rusted completely away.

Wish I had cached it and came back for it later...........

[STUDENT-ARCHER]

Originally Posted by holadude

Also, years ago in Boy Scouts, we canoed in Canada. We were way back some secluded river when another canoe appeared in front of us. As we got closer we realized it was a fully nude woman and her dog! She didn't seem to mindnotice a bit that 25 boy scouts and leaders had their jaws dragging the water.
She just said, "How are you doing boys? Nice day today."
No one even thought to get a picture.

now that's not being prepared!

[timgarside]

I have found an old well that was in 70-100 yo timber, lots of old medicine bottles, liquor stills, and also what looks like dunes that were dug by the Etowah river. They look like they might have been hand dug for troops in the civil war to take cover. There are huge trees in them now but they are definatly man made.

[timgarside]

Originally Posted by Alan in GA

I'm 56 and have explored many woods in many states being that Dad was in the Air Force [B-52 Nav before he retired in 1966]. I've lived in:
Louisiana [2x]
California [2x]
Florida [2x]
Georgia [.....now]
New York [upstate 25 miles from Canada]
Texas [Galviston I think]

I think I started exploring woods and swamps in Louisiana. We would find old slave shacks in the woods,,a shallow well nearby [always used to look down with flashlight] and the homes looked like the owners left without taking much, probably didn't have much.
I still remember a few old home places I've explored,,and one I WISHED I had explored. That one was a log home totally grown over. Found it in the Pumkinvine Creek area of Paulding/Bartow county line. We were on our brand new Honda 350 Scramblers , 1970 models. Rode out where we were always afraid to drive our cars. Saw a beautiful LOG home somewhere out there in North Paulding far from any travelable road. Might have been a jeep trail near it but definately 4wd area.
We had a deer club near Buckhead/Madison area. It had a 2 story double [both ends]fireplace old farm home that was supposed to be about 150 years old. I tried to sleep in it one night,,,no way!
Anyway, OLD HOME SIGHTS have always interested me. Wished I could click a 'history' button and hear what all had happened in each home. Of course we always talk about metal detecting near them, too.
Here's an old bridge somewhere near Hampton [I think] Ga we found while exploring a possible deer lease a few years ago.

I found an old barn once that had an old 2 seater horse wagon in it. It was preserved like new. There wasn't any houses for a long way and there were trees grown up all around it. You would have needed a logging crew to get it out. There is a subdivision there now so someone got it.

[timgarside]

Originally Posted by short stop

wow --I posted way on in this thing about some maryjoawanna but wow --some of the stuff yall found is amazing --after reading Thomas post about that super deer stand I remembered about a climbing stand we happend upon long ago that was actually a 2 basketball goals rigged with screws and some serious welding for a climber ---looked liked it wieghed 50 lbs --I guess 25 yrs agoin 1980 -81 it was like sliced bread, That was when you could walk around for hrs /miles from home and nobody arrested you .

The more of these I read the more crazy stuff I remember seeing. Do ya'll remember the 1st old bow hunter stands that had the bottom piece and the small climbing piece. Well I had one of those dangerous things and one day while I was hunting out of it in Blue Ridge WMA after the sun came up I noticed the climbing piece to another one in the tree right next to me about 30' off the ground. Wierd!

[rustydog]

i came upon a old house site about five years ago that was way back a good hour walk. On the front porch there were bits of clothing still hanging and firewood and I looked inside and everything was still in place. There were old liquor bottles and a pair of boots at the foot of the bed clothes were hung across twine that was stretched across corners of the room. the outhouse next to it was still standing and an old barn still standing with hay in it below the house. The best thing about it was that when I walked up there were deer in the apple and walnut trees in the grown up backyard. I came back and hunted there the next morning and killed my first buck with a muzzleloader and went back that afternoon passed on a decent bear and killed a second buck. Up until this year I have seen several nice deer in that old house site and killed a few and very few mornings have I sat and not seen anything until I made the hike in this year to find that the land had been auctioned off as part of a tract of the nantahala national forest that President bush privately auctioned off to help eliminate the nations debt. I aquired the information from the tusquitee ranger district in macon county nc where I was hunting I was very disappointed to find out that a few thousand acres like this has been auctioned off in the past few years. It is mainly land like this that the family had no one to leave it to or owed taxes and it went back to the government.

[mossyrich]

Hunting in Gilmer I was in the tree for a few hours, I keeped hearing leaves turning and churning, I sat for a nother hour and couldnt stand it no more I had to see what it was. Got down and went to investigate, I never would have belived my eyes, two turtles doing the nasty...

[COUNTRY MIKE]

Johnf

[NGxplr22]

1.Teenage "witches"
They wanted the tails off the three squirrels in my bag

2.Stoned Geocachers
I was turkey hunting and when I got tired of watching them fall over every twig in the area while making as much noise as they could I cleared my throat and stood up away from the tree I was resting against. One of them looked straight at me as I got up. His eyes got as big as golfballs and he ran away screaming "the tree is alive! the tree is alive!". I have no idea where the cache was suppposed to be but they gave it up to go look for their friend.

[duckwhisperer]

we were duck huntin the river and found a bag with a laptop, a (difibulator,sp?) a bunch of ppls medical chartes a doctors papers. found it right outside stewart county called it in, turns out sumone stole a doctors car in albany, drove it up to columbus and threw all his stuff off the bridge into the river

[BuckinFish]

ttt

[Steve Thompson]

A computer.

[bow-boy]

Man, I just spent almost an hour and read everyone of these!
Some of yall are lucky!!!!!
TTT keep em comin!
These are great

[warden127]

while working morgan co. on opening day of deer season in 1985 my sgt. and i found a young boy standing in the middle of a intersection of two roads with a loaded firearm deer hunting. he said his father had told him to hunt there and not to move. we located his father almost a quarter mile away in a deer stand. it was funny and dangerous.

[XxDeer HunterxX]

[quote=warden127;4231368]while working morgan co. on opening day of deer season in 1985 my sgt. and i found a young boy standing in the middle of a intersection of two roads with a loaded firearm deer hunting. he said his father had told him to hunt there and not to move. we located his father almost a quarter mile away in a deer stand. it was funny and dangerous.[/QUOTE



some people

[bowfish hunter]

Not about hunting but interesting..back when i was about 10 my grandpa told me when he was a young boy he would walk the woods in crawfordville, georgia
he saw where daniel boone had caverd he name in a tree, they no for a facct that he had come through this county

i know a guy who was cutting a few oak trees down on his land and he come to two trees that had grown together had he cut one side down had a old flint muscket had been proped up in there. They said it where they camp for a while i guees the soldier died and the trees had grew around it

[hayseed_theology]

I was doing some off-roading with some guys off Buford Hwy. Coming down this trail, and we find an Explorer sunk up to the bumpers in the middle of a big mud hole, and it's blocking the trail. I get out to investigate. It is brand spanking new. Dealer tag. Windows are busted out and radio is gone. Clearly, it's hot.

Turn around, cuz we can't go any further. Head off to a new spot, and about a mile down the road, there is a cop pulled off the road. I pull over and tell him the story, tell him where the vehicle is. I even offer to show him. He wants no part of it. Says it probably ain't stolen, probably just some rich kids who bought it as a toy and left it. I'm pretty sure it was stolen, but I understand his hesitation to ride back in the woods with 4 guys he doesn't know.

[dc02]

Great stuff here.

I haven't been out on a hunt yet, but you couldn't keep me out of the woods when I was a kid. Some of the things I remember are an old dairy box, a leg hold trap, someone's john boat capsized and hung on a log, a '48 Chevy truck, an old busted up water wheel and the metal remains of a mill and you could see how they diverted the water into with a wall of stone in the river. Old metal glider chairs. Some pocket knives. Bunches of old bottles. 40's or 50's car doors and hood.

My dad took me on a hike to a Civil War cemetery he found and we talked to the farmer that lived near it. He said he turned up muskets in the field plowing. I think there's a historical marker there now.

Since y'all are bringing up creepy stuff, when I was 8-11(I can't recall exactly) my sister took me to a basement where they'd demolished the house and there had been satanic rituals and human sacrifices somewhere around Stone Mountain. I'd ask her, but she decided not to talk to the family a while back. The place had a concrete alter and a pattern in the walls like IHIHIHI (like an H and beside it, an H on its side)all over all the walls. They were going to fill it in and I guess she wanted to check it out before they did and took me along.

Hopefully I'll have something interesting from a hunt to post -hopefully no dead people.

*Wild Turkey, did the Mexicans shoot each other? Mexican standoff style?

[MCBUCK]

Saw a boat story or two...got my own.

I was hunting on Ocmulgee WMA about two years ago. I had hung my stand just off the side of a hardwood ridge and overlooking a swampy area. I saw a couple of BIG does, and a small buck and decided to get down and investigate the area they came through to see if I could get a better vantage point for the evening hunt. Low and behold, every deer I had seen that morning had walked within 10 feet of a perfect fiberglass canoe: life vest, paddles and cooler inside. I radioed my buddy to see if he would help me get it out of the woods, but the night before the temp had gotten to a low of about 15' and the canoe was frozen solid to the ground and was about half full of ice, but the thing was in pristine condition.

[xhunterx]

found an old whiskey still on pigeon mtn wma yesterday, old barrels had been busted with an axe, really interesting

[telco guy]

Found a fella sleeping in my woods last fall. wasn't sure if he was dead or alive as he was under a sheet. Called the the sherrif's dept. and they took him away. Turned out it was the same guy that shot the two Newton Co. sherrif's deputies later this summer.

[bwn_us]

found an old jump suit. very faded but i think it was an old chain gang issue. in the same area we found alot of potted meat cans. i am asking all my relatives to see what i can find out.

[deepwoodshermit]

Not weird but funny. One morning while still hunting through a hardwood bottom I spotted three dogs sleeping in the sun. I got within 20 feet of them when two of them saw me and calmly got up and walked off. The third had his back to me and I managed to walk right up to him and stand over him. I made a little whistle sound and he just rolled over on his back, keeping his eyes closed. So I made a growl sound and he opened his eyes and saw me standing over him. He let out a scream like I have never heard a dog make and ran away at full speed.

My (at the time) girlfriend and I spent a week camping on a remote sandbar. For the first three nights we had slept out in the open next to the fire. On the forth night I woke up feeling for certain that something was watching me. I asked my gf if she was awake and her reply was, something is watching us from the woods. I had a 9mm beside me so I grabbed it and we got into the tent. After being inside the tent for maybe a minute I hear something heavy walking in the sand heading straight for our tent. The windows had velcro holding them up, so I was trying to get one open enough to see out of it. Whatever was walking towards us got within 10 feet of us when the velcro made a slight sound and it turned and calmly walked back into the woods. I have spent 25 years in the woods and have never before or since felt so strange while in the woods. Spent about an hour the next morning looking for tracks but couldn't find anything.

Maybe it was a dog getting revenge for the first story.

[Eddy M.]

I've posted this in another thread-------- black garbage bag kinda buried full of LADIES PANTIES ------ notified local LEO and they blew me off ( and they knew me as I was a leader in a local V.F.D. even had my own radio ID for the sheriff's dept ) probably some sex freak stealing women's panties from outdoor drying lines but nothing was done--- bag was gone 2-3 days later

[hunting clouds]

Found seventy something dollars one time laying matted together and some partially scattered on dawson forest several years ago while scouting