August 14th, 2010 
admin I found a bag with 3 boxes of new live 308 factory ammo at the range now. Receipt in the bag. Reminded me of the sweet Gerber Multi-Tool I found at a fishing spot last summer – thing was really new with not a sharpening scract on the main blade. Out on the ATV’s – my wife has spotted knifes, a nice helmet, and a cargo strap by the trail.
What cool things have you found – that you know the owner is bumming he lost it?
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The neatest thing I found was a Ithaca mdl 37 shotgun leaning against a tree while squirrel hunting in Arkansas back in the 80s. Never did find the owner. It was rusted some and was loaded with #2 lead shot.
I have found pocket knives flashlights, hand axe and all sorts of camping stuff through the years traveling the USA. Incredible what people leave or loose.
I know you have been through the some of SE Alaska. Well you know how people camp on all those small islands we have here. I have found all sorts of junk people leave behind. I mean they left the whole camp behind. I know some tourists are bone idle but setting up a camp in the Tongass and just leaving it all should be illegal. I reckon some of the out of state kayakers are to blame for much of it. But some islands are turning into a mess. My son and I spent two days cleaning up just one area.
All the stuff we found was enough to equip a few families with camping gear.
Concord of mind…..
2 groundbreaking new tie downs… tree stands (but I don’t reckon they were lost and I didn’t touch them..lol) I am usually the one losing things… so some of that stuff may be mine… I will keep a list of what all has found and estimate it back within a week…
Well, I was bumming over a lost item. Then, a year later, while hunting in the same area, I found my lost item. I knew that it was mine when I found it again, a bit dirty, half buried and a bit blemished. How could I know that it was mine, you might question? Simple, is my answer, for only an utter and complete MORON would lose a pair of Swarovski 10X42 binoculars, that same incredibly lucky idiot finding them a year later. I have not the slightest CLUE as to how nobody else found them before I returned to that spot the following year. As to how I found them (not even looking for them), it’s simple.
I stubbed my toe against the binocular’s body while tracking game, all but falling on my…well…you know.
P.S. On that same hunt, I found a German made Boker hunting knife (rare!). I started to pick it up, then stopped myself, thinking that there was a additional moron (like me), out there that might restore to trip over it, and take it home.
I once “found” a g/f while out hunting. She was out birdwatching, while I was out hunting quail. It lasted until the next year’s hunting season started and I was tossed, as I apparently disastrous to learn to be an anti-gunner/anti-hunter. A match made in hell.
If its a public range, you’ll never find the owner of the .308′s, but if its a club, I’d check the sign in sheet and turn the ammo over to the club director or rangemaster. Wierdest thing I ever found while out and about in the woods were 3 civilians who jumped the fence at Lockbourne AFB, guns in hand, to do a small rabbit hunting. They pissed and moaned since we bagged a bunny that their dog had on the run. I threatened to haul them off to the base lockup. They left in a huge rush. Best thing I ever found was my buddy Ernie, dead asleep under a huge ancient oak tree, while we were hunting just north of Columbus (Delaware County???) Yes, I’m a no goodnick. We woke him up with a shotgun blast REAL close to him (silent pointed skyward, just made the noise real close to Ernie). Most amusing thing ever was watching him jump up and swear he was “just resting his eyes for a second”.
Some things have been, a couple of knives, a .338, gloves, a climber…
the .338 (which i found hot) and a small rusty. i found on private property, which only me and 3 additional guys are allowed to hun on…. I knew who’s it was, but i didn’t say anything, i just wanted to see how long it would take for the guy to start asking around….. It musnt have been that much to him, as it took him 3 months to call all the guys up that hunt that land and question them if they found a gun…. By that time i had by now killed myself a deer with that gun!!
the climber.. i found when squirrel hunting… i left it at the same spot for 1 month, as it was a pretty expensive climber to leave behind ( it was a Lone Wolf wide… About a $400 climber) with i month i came back, seen that it was still there… well it finished up on my back and back of the truck…
I found a 20 dough bill once while hunting, I of course checked it for brown marks in case someone used it for the worlds most expensive toilet paper.
I found a Case brand folding lockback knife stuck in a tree.
I was with someone who found a rather expensive wrist watch in HIS OWN tree stand! Go figure that one out. Someone chose to use his tree stand and lost a $1500+ watch in it.
Found a human femur bone in West Virginia, state police sent a forensic unit out to collect the bone and map the place of the find. Our hunting day finished abruptly since of it.
In Pennsylvania I found a cache of civil war list balls, I still have a bunch of them, they were by far the heaviest thing I have ever carried out of the woods. I have since learned they were used for a 12 pound mountain howitzer.
I found a nice Gerber knife stuck in the ground one time. Additional than that I’m lucky to see the animal I’m hunting.
Some excellent answers here so far; I’ve found a knife with a stag handle, some arrowheads, a whole line of ancient jaw traps made in the late 40′s, and a broken powder horn. For me though the very thing I’ve ever found while hunting is the friendship and trust that I have with my son and dad. Being able to spend time with family, excellent friends, people who share the same attitudes and feelings as I do; that’s the very best thing I’ve ever found in the world of hunting.
a trespasser masquerding as a deer. you know, peple taste like a cross between venison and pork, or at least, 150 lb 50 yr ancient assholes do. sick for weeks
while fishing… many many many lures and fishing poles and sometimes reels
while hunting… a mysterious bra in te middle of the woods and thats it
and while riding the dirtbike around the woods… bengee cords tow straps ratchet straps, full exaushts from dirtbikes (i cant believe they didnt notice the bike get A LOT louder when it fell off), few wrenches, all together about 300 feet of rope of various diameters, and a pair of nearly new very nice and expensive dirt bike gloves
A 1989 Honda TRX 450!