Strangest thing you have run across while hunting

[Circle C]

Going hunting in the sure enough ghetto in a couple hours, and we were joking about what we might run across out there got me to thinking.

What is the strangest thing you have run across while hunting?

 Near my place in Centerville, I still don't know what it is I ran across, but it looks like an old cast 4" pipe sticking up about 3-4' out of the ground  in the woods. The pipe is about 300 yards from the original homestead that was built well over 100 years ago. The soil in the area is sugar sand, and I am not aware of any cellars, but maybe it has to do with a still?  I will try to remember to get a picture of it


So, what's the strangest thing you have run across while hunting?

[slimpickins]

I ran across a camo short bus full of rough lookin' wierdos one night.................. oh wait, I was in the camo short bus, nevermind. 

[lightningh]

I have seen some old artisian wells that are similar to what you described...

[nosightsneeded]

while hunting with a friend in cherokee he showed me a pipe sticking out of the ground,. you splashed the water out and it filled back up. he said it was a spring.

[catchrcall]

I was caribou hunting in alaska nearly twelve miles from a road and riding a four wheeler down a creek bed and I found an old bulldozer and an old pickup.  It doesn't sound that strange i guess, until you see the trails we had to ride to get there, almost bad enough to wreck a four wheeler a few times over.  there were no other roads, no trails, no nothing to where this stuff was sitting.  Like it fell out of the sky.  a couple days later into the hunt we found a meth lab.

[matt_aggie04]

I found an old metal structure that was consumed by a cedar tree at my old deer lease in west Texas.  This tract of land is V E R Y remote and where I was at when I found it was a very hard to get to get to spot on a ridge.  It was some type of still of something with a large cone shaped section about 4-5' tall with a little door like a stove.  The hinge for the door was really unique and appeared to be made out of cast iron and one-off.  It was made large on one end and small on the other to accomodate the taper in the cone peice.  I took the hinge home with me and made a buffed it and treated with mineral oil and used it as a picture frame, turned out pretty cool.
When I was younger we were hunting on an old family deer lease around Elwood on the Trinity River and I was way down in the bottom just squirrel hunting and found an old horse shoe.  I have no real way of knowing how old it was but it looked really old and no one had ridden a horse with permission on that property in 75+ years.  At the time I thought it was the coolest thing.
MG

[Cull Buck]

The strangest thing I have found while hog hunting is hogs.  If you have hunted with my dogs you'd understand how unique that find actually is. 

The same group of buddies and I hunt rams out in west tx every year.  There are a bunch of caves in and around the dry creek beds that run thru the ranch and I've checked out most of them.  I belly crawled into one and noticed it immediately opened up and had a nice dome shaped top that had obviously been chisled out with a crude instrument.  I look over to the right there are a bunch of ancient drawings of animals and people on the wall of the cave.  Pretty cool!  I assume this picture is of a mule deer because that's most adundant horned animal out there.  I held a shotgun shell up to it so that you could reference the size.

[grunterhunter8]

I found this wooden statue in the middle of some THICK brush on one place we hunt. Dont' know how it could of got there....

[Monteria]

PIGS! 

[matt_aggie04]

That thing is kinda scary!!  Made really well though, looks just like a real person's face, not chizled at all.

Cull, that is really neat.  I love to check out caves and things of that nature.  On the same place in west texas we check all of them out and found snakes mostly!!  There was a large native american population at one time though and most of the artifacts had been removed by the land owner except for the hard to get to places    Me, Chris Windham, WestTexasCurs and his buddy climbed up and found a dozen good arrow head in about 30 minutes on a huge bluff.  I have the pics at home, I will post them later.

MG

[Bryant]

Cull Buck,

If you don't mind me asking, where was the place you hunted?

We had a mule deer lease for a few years north east of Alpine in the Glass mountains, and there are some cool caves on the place much like you describe.  There was even a burned out midden on the place that has been studied by archeologists for quite some time.  It was a very interesting place, and we found some cool stuff there (In addition to some monster mule deer, elk, and aoudad.)
 
Here's an article about it.  The ranch we had was the Mills Ranch.

http://www.sulross.edu/cbbs/fieldschool-1998.php

[shawn]

maybe not the strangest thing ive seen, but the most insane rub ive ever seen, actually had a camera that day too.

[cantexduck]

Shawn- are you wearing baseball cleats?

[BarrNinja]

About 4 years ago wile hog hunting we had one of the finest looking blonds I have ever seen ride out of the woods on a sorrel horse bareback!!!  Tank top, daisy dukes, and bare footed! I ain't even kidding!  Quite a vision I assure you fellas!!!
She was friendly as a person could be and rode with us for about a 1/2 mile just yakking a way like she had known us forever.
Im glad I had a friend with me or I would have written her off as an hallucination!

You just dont see that way back in the woods every day hog hunting!

[Purebreedcolt]

dang i want to go with ninja was not actually hunting but scouting a place and found a big hole in the ground.  was way back in the brush off of a creek bed and no road around but the thing had to be 5 feet deep and 8 ot 10 feed across and just almost perfectly round.  No way any motor anything has been in there for at least 50 years probally longer because of the pecans trees around it

[shawn]

Shawn- are you wearing baseball cleats?

lmao!!, thats not me, that's Daniel, this place is hilly as hell, and not real four wheeler friendly, we wear tennis shoes out there sometimes. a bay from a thousand yards away and a couple of hills along the way makes you re-think boots, lol a HONEY hole though..

[nothing]

my dad my cousin a guy that lived with us and me were huntin the forest one day and we come up beside our property and as we go up on a hill we all heard this really loud scream that sounded like a woman . it spooked us and the dogs and the dogs run into the forest and so did my dad and cousin but they couldnt find nothing .  that was when i was 13 3 years later me and my mate were driving through teh forest and heard a girl scream its pretty spooky .. we never seen nothing but it was scary . the wierdest thing i ever seen on the forest tho was when me and my cousin were riding motorbikes and he rode past a water holr and as i was riding up to it this thing walked across the road it was on two feet about 6 and a half foot tall and it had really long arms that went down to about its knees . looked alot like a human except the arms were longer.

[So Oklahoma Cur Dogs]

The cave paintings are about the coolest thing I've seen man. Did anybody ever find out what that thing the guys grandpaw found in the creek was? Don't know about strange but I've come across a couple of old meth labs where they left all their trash in the woods. Probably should have reported it but never did.

[TT]

man aussie dont tell stories like that i wanna go over there bad and know you got me a little scared lol

[WestTexasCurs]

I have found a cave with drawings,rock bowls,etc.Lots of arrow heads,and stuff like that.In 1995 we caught a hog with two noses,kinda strange.Jumped a yearling lion up from a plumb thicket in 1994,there aint many of those up here.The strangest thing I have heard someone run across while hunting.My buddys Granddad was hunting a big ranch up here that is super rough.The dogs went off in a canyon and jumped something.A running fight took off down the canyon floor.The hunters were horseback up on the rim,they heard the dogs go to baying.It was very strange to them,there dogs didnt bay,they caught.But sure enough they were set back baying something.They rode around and found away down.Rode up ready to rope a whopper hog.Not a hog........Hyena.Like them ugly critters in Africa,yep Hyena! I think that is how you spell it.I cant remember what he said they did with it.But I remember him saying it was probably something somebody turned loose.This was in the early 60's late 50's.Kinda strange.