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[Sell]

Found the complete skeletal remains of a six point that had jumped a fence and ended up with his neck wedged in the fork of a tree. Was before the days of cell phone cameras, sure wish i would have gotten a pic.

[FuzzyFultz]

 hankenhunter, on 10 January 2012 - 06:28 PM, said:

An old empty papoose hanging from a tree. Being Cree, it gave me the willies.
Hank

Sir, if you would please. What is a papoose ? A papoose here where I live is referring to a baby.

[FuzzyFultz]

I once was hunting and could hear a small faint squealing noise. I went in circles looking up and on the ground and finally found the source. It was a baby squirrel that had fallen from the nest above and was very cold and had a very little hair. I put it in my shirt pocket to warm it up and took it home. My wife and I tried to safe the little critters life, but he passed on the next day.

Edited by FuzzyFultz, 07 February 2012 - 12:31 PM.

[TRG3]

Speaking of squirrels, back in my junior high days (I'm retired now) my dad would take a buddy and me some 3 miles out of town and we'd hunt our way back. My buddy always brought his squirrel dog, a boxer bulldog named "Sparky", which we'd release at the edge of each small woods we encountered. When Sparky would tree, we'd run as fast as possible to him with one of us on each side of the tree. On one occasion, a gray squirrel realized that he was in an unforgiving position and hightailed it from the top of the tree to a hole about 20' off the ground before either of us could get off a shot. He hadn't been in the hole but a few seconds when a scuffle began, shortly producing a squirrel with a snake wrapped around him. Both tumbled to the ground in a ball with the fight continuing. We both settled the matter with a couple of blasts from our shotguns. We kept the squirrel and left the snake. Strange...but true!

[NBK]

Found a body hanging in a tree .I thought it was fake because it was around Halloween,Walked up to the body and it was real.

[WI ROGUE]

Walked up on a skeleton and upon inspection of it I saw a collar it was from a dog that lived about 2 miles away

[gutpile27]

A Tissot watch.It was hanging in a branch above a gutpile.I've found knives,wallets,belts,and binoculors near gutpiles.Fell down in a snowbank once,clawed my way out and had a can of Busch beer in my non gun hand.Miles from anywhere.Still fresh,not a track around.

[TacomaShooter]

A coral snake...in January. I was hunting in a ground blind and it slithered across my boot. Glad I didn't fall asleep in the blind that day...would have been a less than ideal thing to find in my pant leg! Anyway, I got a stick and threw him out of the blind. While watching him slither away, a hawk appeared out of nowhere and swooped him up! I found out later that a coral snake can "choose" not to hibernate and that it wasn't that uncommon to see one that time of year in East Texas. 20+ years hunting there and it's the only one I've ever seen.

Edited by TacomaShooter, 27 January 2012 - 12:55 AM.

[hankenhunter]

 FuzzyFultz, on 24 January 2012 - 08:59 AM, said:

Sir, if you would please. What is a papoose ? A papoose here where I live is referring to a baby.

It's the carrier for Indian babies. When a baby died the papoose would be hung in the woods.

[FuzzyFultz]

 hankenhunter, on 27 January 2012 - 02:43 AM, said:

It's the carrier for Indian babies. When a baby died the papoose would be hung in the woods.

Thank you, never thought of that. Yes I have heard the word papoose mentioned in some Indian history. A piece of history for everyone. I have always and will always attend a great respect for the Indians and their culture and way of life. Much more so this day and time, while living in amongest  so many that have no morals and no respect for one another.

[Tazewell]

It was during rifle season, about 15 degrees, no snow.  I saw a deer walking quietly, stopped, snorted and ran back where she came.  I waited a few minutes and then started to walk towards the area she came from.  I heard some moaning, and came around a tree to see a couple in a sleeping bag having sex.    The girl (on bottom) looks up and said, "Hey did you see the deer that almost walked up on us?"  I said yes.  The guy then says, you should have been here yesterday, a buck did the same thing!   I hunted a different area the next day.
TRUE STORY!

Tazewell

[Lrodshy]

 firemedic396, on 12 January 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

A diesel locomotive. It was in the middle of the Pine Barrens and walking around deer hunting I stubled along an old railroad bed. I followed it for a little bit and I see this large object in the woods. I got closer to it and saw a full size train locomotive and only like 2 sections of tracks underneath it. Looked weird as heck and certainly out of place just sitting in the woods, kinda creepy really, like they just drove it out there, parked it, pulled up the tracks and left it. Why would they do that? I dunno. About 50 feet from the train was a complete '59 Plymouth with the keys in it too. No dead body (although I didn't check the trunk) in it. looks like it got parked and left for some reason.

[Lrodshy]

MY first b-i-l 's father used to work for rr co, so when he retied, they gave him and family a boxcar, built a temp rail road to his land an remove tracks after they set it up for him and family, was outside of Dallas, texas back in 40's

Lrodshy

[hankenhunter]

An old trappers dugout cabin. Didn't know it was there till I went through the moss roof up to my chin. It had all kinds of old rotten debris and some rusty traps. And no, there was no body.
Happy hair raising,
Hank

[markvan]

Love the story of the old locomotive in the woods... that is really cool!

  Here's one for you....

  Not hunting, but one time driving off road motorcycles with a few friends deep in the woods, we had an ostrich run out on the trail in front of us.  Ran down the trail for a bit then back into the bush.....  Being in Canada, that ostrich surely is a long way from home.  Deer is not uncommon, but an ostrich surely was the last thing I ever expected to see pop out in front!!

[hankenhunter]

 markvan, on 04 February 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:

Love the story of the old locomotive in the woods... that is really cool!

  Here's one for you....

  Not hunting, but one time driving off road motorcycles with a few friends deep in the woods, we had an ostrich run out on the trail in front of us.  Ran down the trail for a bit then back into the bush.....  Being in Canada, that ostrich surely is a long way from home.  Deer is not uncommon, but an ostrich surely was the last thing I ever expected to see pop out in front!!

Can you imagine a cougar or a bears surprise if they ran into it? Attacking an adult ostrich would be a very painful surprise.
As a former timber cruiser I have seen a few "steam donkey's" left in the woodson the west coast. They all seem to be the same age. They were abandoned when the mobile yarder and logging trucks were introduced. The op is right in that it is spooky when you come apon one sitting in the middle of nowhere with no tracks leading out. Wish I would have had a camera.
Hank

[LegendInMyOwnMind]

I was bow hunting last fall in the woods along a 2 track. A of a sudden a vintage car (50's I'd say) comes driving under me. They get like 40 yards to my left and stopped. A couple proceeded to get out. They had no idea I was there. They were maybe in there 50's and just started to make out. Just then I said quietly since they were so close "I'm hunting." I've never seen anyone move so fast!  I asked the property owner if he knew who it might be. He had no idea. He said if it happens again to put an arrow thru their roof! Of course I never saw them again....

[fxstdavew]

300 weatherby. even placed an ad in the paper to attempt to find the owner.