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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #4580832 09/19/13 02:51 AM
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When my Dad and I hunt quail up near Littlefield, we always hunt a small patch around a fallen in stuccoed over adobe constuction garage. We haven't seen a covey there in years, but we always stop there anyway. One year several years ago, my daughter was with us and my Dad found a heavy old ceramic Christmas ornament that resembles a pomegranate. It is one of the first ornaments we put on our Christmas tree each year.


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Cool. Lot of memories in that ornament.


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #4584182 09/20/13 02:00 AM
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Ok, I've spent the last couple of days reading through this thread. Great thread.

I'm going to add this one even though its not my story, in the sense that I didn't find it.

When I was a kid I used to hunt on a big ranch in Duval county. My dad met one of his best friends out there, and became one of mine as well. He was a guide at the time along with another guy. Well, this other guy saw something that he couldn't wait to tell. This was the late 70's, early 80's.

Story is, he was running his trap lines one morning and cut down a seldom used road on a hill that overlooked a lot of land. As he got out to reset his trap, he noticed a truck about 400 yards away. He got his binoculars, and could see that it was the ranch owners cousin and he had a deer in the back of his pickup. On closer inspection, he realized that he had the does leg up in the air, and his pants down around his knees, and he was trying to marry that thar deer. He couldn't stop laughing every time he told the story.

Still, to this day, when we see a doe run across the road, we say "There goes (omitted)'s girlfriend!"

This sounds like a yarn, I know, but knowing the players involved...I very much believe it to be true. If nothing else, it makes for a helluva campfire story.

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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: spibiggie] #4584338 09/20/13 02:33 AM
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #4585094 09/20/13 12:53 PM
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We just moved to a new ranch south of Merkel. On a recent scouting trip, one of the guys found a old leg trap. When I setup my feeder in what I thought was a very remote location, I found a old metal tower blind that had blown over. It was one that was welded, not bolted together. We have no idea how someone got that blind to that location without using a helicopter. Can't wait until after deer season so I can hunt it for arrowheads.


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man..bangin the dead doe....wow.... .

great thread!!!.. .i love reading these stories... even as weird as some are!!!

Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: spibiggie] #4586044 09/20/13 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted By: spibiggie
Ok, I've spent the last couple of days reading through this thread. Great thread.

I'm going to add this one even though its not my story, in the sense that I didn't find it.

When I was a kid I used to hunt on a big ranch in Duval county. My dad met one of his best friends out there, and became one of mine as well. He was a guide at the time along with another guy. Well, this other guy saw something that he couldn't wait to tell. This was the late 70's, early 80's.

Story is, he was running his trap lines one morning and cut down a seldom used road on a hill that overlooked a lot of land. As he got out to reset his trap, he noticed a truck about 400 yards away. He got his binoculars, and could see that it was the ranch owners cousin and he had a deer in the back of his pickup. On closer inspection, he realized that he had the does leg up in the air, and his pants down around his knees, and he was trying to marry that thar deer. He couldn't stop laughing every time he told the story.

Still, to this day, when we see a doe run across the road, we say "There goes (omitted)'s girlfriend!"

This sounds like a yarn, I know, but knowing the players involved...I very much believe it to be true. If nothing else, it makes for a helluva campfire story.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: 007hunters son] #4586678 09/20/13 07:57 PM
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I found parts of an old model t ford, I have found old snares, claw foot traps found a few sheds, tons of horse shoes& many old mason jars. I have yet to find an old gun

Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: txtrophy85] #4586725 09/20/13 08:11 PM
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When I was a kid I found an old feed trough full of dirty magazines. I piled so many on the seat of my Honda 70 that I could barley reach the footpegs!!!! Boy, I was the hit of the neighborhood!!! lol

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Originally Posted By: spibiggie
Ok, I've spent the last couple of days reading through this thread. Great thread.

I'm going to add this one even though its not my story, in the sense that I didn't find it.

When I was a kid I used to hunt on a big ranch in Duval county. My dad met one of his best friends out there, and became one of mine as well. He was a guide at the time along with another guy. Well, this other guy saw something that he couldn't wait to tell. This was the late 70's, early 80's.

Story is, he was running his trap lines one morning and cut down a seldom used road on a hill that overlooked a lot of land. As he got out to reset his trap, he noticed a truck about 400 yards away. He got his binoculars, and could see that it was the ranch owners cousin and he had a deer in the back of his pickup. On closer inspection, he realized that he had the does leg up in the air, and his pants down around his knees, and he was trying to marry that thar deer. He couldn't stop laughing every time he told the story.

Still, to this day, when we see a doe run across the road, we say "There goes (omitted)'s girlfriend!"

This sounds like a yarn, I know, but knowing the players involved...I very much believe it to be true. If nothing else, it makes for a helluva campfire story.


Ive got a very similar story.

Owner of a farm in Illinois that I hunt has a friend. This said friend shoot s adeer every time he goes in the woods. Im not joking. He kills 70-80 deer a year between 10 states. He pulls a trailer with a freezer and a mobile processing station. He leaves his house in the middle of Oct and doesnt return until the middle of January.

Anyways....Landowner was curious to see what else this guy was doing since he was killing so many deer and he followed him in one evening and set up about 100 yards away. Friend shoots 1st doe that comes through and then "nails" it on the ground too.

Landowner has this on video. Friend also admits to doing this and being caught by the landowner so that makes me believe it a little more. I refuse to watch the video.

Friends reply to all of this is....It gets lonely when you dont have your wife with you for 3 months.


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Sutto] #4587807 09/21/13 02:53 AM
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When I was a kid I found an old feed trough full of dirty magazines. I piled so many on the seat of my Honda 70 that I could barley reach the footpegs!!!! Boy, I was the hit of the neighborhood!!! lol
I bet you were, Sutto. nuts


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: FoxTrot] #4587831 09/21/13 03:01 AM
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These guys must have tiny wieners.


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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Erathkid] #4589276 09/21/13 08:33 PM
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I found some old glass bottles in what I guess was a trash pile.
One is brown, about a the size of a 40oz beer bottle and says "Federal law forbids sale" on one side and "Or re - use of this bottle". Another clear square shaped one with a rode print.
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: hoof n wings] #4591229 09/22/13 06:54 PM
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Re: Unusual things you have found while hunting [Re: Woody Wood] #4592625 09/23/13 03:55 AM
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One frosty morning I climbed a tree with my climbing stand and waited for daylight. The morning was sunny and warming quickly. As it got warmer I noticed alot of flying insects, then I could hear alot of humming. Soon , yellow jackets were swarming all around, and I noticed them coming out of a hole in the tree, below me. I was trapped. Ended up I had to bail out of the stand without a parachute. I survived the jump, then had to get a very long branch to knock down the stand. Naturally the stand dropped right on the hole, and the bees chased me thru a cornfield. Waited for them to calm down and knocked the stand to the ground and got the he?? out of there. It was not a very good morning hunt, to say the least.

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Can't remember if I posted this earlier but when I was way younger I found a full set of womans clothing. Wasn't old enough to know what that probably meant...


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2 new climbing stands and a camera as well! Close to our back fence near a road. I hate poachers! But I did get some good stuff that year...they never came poaching there .


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Found a metal arrow, intact, and one that was mangled (and possibly hit its target), next to a 1730 Spanish coin in far west Texas. Marked the spot and planned to go back someday with a metal detector to see what I could find.
(pics on a different computer)

Found hundreds of arrowheads. Here's a few:


My friend found this in a cave and gave it to me as a gift years ago:


I've found hundreds of backpacks full of clothes, empty water bottles, and some very cheap mexican liquor at our place in Dimmit country throughout the years.

I found a rangefinder that someone lost 3 years previous, while walking around the ranch. Still worked!

I'm sure I'll think of others...

This is an amazing thread!


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I have found a steel trap with a Badger foot still attached, fossilized, near Sanderson. A baloon from El Paso near Alpine,
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Good bump!

I can't remember if I posted this before but when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over east Texas there were groups of people sent into the woods to map and recover the various parts. While searching they found a lot of stills, illegal grow operations and according to a friend, several "major" crime scenes. One thing they found "several miles from the nearest road" was a skeleton duct taped to a tree.


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Good bump!

I can't remember if I posted this before but when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over east Texas there were groups of people sent into the woods to map and recover the various parts. While searching they found a lot of stills, illegal grow operations and according to a friend, several "major" crime scenes. One thing they found "several miles from the nearest road" was a skeleton duct taped to a tree.


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I found a 45 colt civil war pistol all rusted up while making a mock scrap

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