Things discovered while scouting or hunting

Longrifle

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
I found what I later learned were 5 Confederate graves on private property in Baker County, Florida. Landowner never knew they were there.....

Came up on what looked like an opening of some sort through the swamp on the back of my property in Volusia County, Florida. I learned that in the 1920's a fellow tried to build a wooden plank road through the swamp through Haw Creek Swamp to Daytona. I went back during a drought when the swamp dried up a bit and found a trail of rough-hewn timbers with railroad spikes still in some of them that ran from the back side of my land to within 100 yards of high ground on the other side...he'd run out of money and the project was abandoned.
 
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Eric Revo

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
looking on the property right behind my houes(which sits right next to the town of Old Richmond historical site) I found two full length marble slabs, no headstones just slabs in a hollow on a hillside. No one in the area has ever seen them or knows anything about them.
 

MoBucks

Old Mossy Horns
A buddy of mine caught a .22 revolver, in the Neuse River, while we were cat fishing.....also, same group of friends, found a Browning A5 that was dropped in the river from the year before...it was in rough shape but once cleaned it still shoots!





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Combat Diver

Eight Pointer
Most interesting things were Nazi ordance still in the German Alps and lakes. We found a rusted German MP-40 SMG laying up against a stone face once when skiing. Unburied a FN FAL in the Kuwaiti sands after the first Gulf War. Cleaned it up and still worked. Left it there with EOD after firing it 500 times.


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Larry R

Old Mossy Horns
Seen lots of things in the woods but the most intriguing to me is a few old graveyards way, way, way back from no where. One of them had rocks sticking up in the ground, another had rocks and a couple of granite headstones. But the most interesting was a huge graveyard, close to a half acre with probably 50 graves all with rocks sticking up out of the ground. Interestingly some of them had names, dates chiseled or somehow carved into the rocks.

Found many a pile of rocks at the four corners where a building once stood, lots of them with a couple of feet of the original logs that had not rotted and gone back to nature.
 

swampnutz

Guest
I haven't found too much mainly old cars and old bottles and such. I found the rear axle of a tractor that was old enough to have the all steel wheels. That pic of the F4U Corsair crash site is super cool.
 

UncleFester

Old Mossy Horns
Hey leave my porn alone man lol

You know you are local to me. Seriously though I can't tell you how many shacks out in the middle of no where I've found and they're all the same.... Found this one last week when walking an old abandoned line out.





BTW your pRon was rough. Better git that stuff up afore kids find it.


I did find this 50's era beer bottle.




I've also found a grave yard near my parents house out in the woods that's been abandoned for many many years. There are rocks as markers for the most part with a few of the later graves actually having tombstones.
 

MRCLAYTON

Eight Pointer
Couple of my buddies ran up up on a guy trying to kill himself with car exhaust in the middle of the woods. They saved him and he is a preacher today, coolest thing ever.
 

Banjo

Old Mossy Horns
Nothing really noteworthy.

Once I was in a treestand and a man and woman hunter did not know I was there. They stopped, she handed him her rifle, then she dropped her drawers and peed. I just kind of chuckled, but if I had it to do over again, just as she squatted, I would have let out a blood curdling scream.
 

rem1148

Guest
Found some nice, old, colored bottles. Did find a man that had commited suicide. Shotgun blast in his chest point blank. 20gauge single shot beside car. spent 7 1/2 shotgun shell still in it. Looked like he proped the gun in the driver window, held the barrel with right hand and pushed trigger with left thumb. Fella was in trouble with law, guess he didn`t want to go to jail. Left 2 daughters behind. Sad for them, but he sure did look peacefull sitting in that car.
Closest I`ve ever been to an eastern diamondback was a shed skin I found while quail hunting a new property back in the late 90`s. It was 9 inches wide lying flat on the ground and we removed leaves from 6 ft of it before it started seperating while it was being shed. The dark markings were still very evident on it. Probably shed late summer that year.
 

Outdoor_Adventurer

Guest
Nothing really from me. Found an old Mountain Dew glass bottle from the 80s this weekend and one time found a clearing where it looked like a satanic ritual had taken place
 

lasttombstone

Kinder, Gentler LTS
Like a lot of others, I found the usual old grave sites on the hunting ground in Franklin Co. years ago. A usual tale tell sign of old graves is periwinkle. Since I've been up here I've found 5 still sites on the 185 ac., most of which I'm told belonged to the brother of the gentleman I bought the place from. This area had gold and silver mines going at the turn of the century and my farm is covered with prospecting sites, holes with piles of white quarts split flat from where they were looking for signs of gold. One of these days I'm gonna get a metal detector and scavage around all these sites. May even try panning the creek to see if anything has washed down my way. Also the usual baloons with tags from school and church groups.
 

ibgreen

Twelve Pointer
Contributor
Like a lot of others, I found the usual old grave sites on the hunting ground in Franklin Co. years ago. A usual tale tell sign of old graves is periwinkle. Since I've been up here I've found 5 still sites on the 185 ac., most of which I'm told belonged to the brother of the gentleman I bought the place from. This area had gold and silver mines going at the turn of the century and my farm is covered with prospecting sites, holes with piles of white quarts split flat from where they were looking for signs of gold. One of these days I'm gonna get a metal detector and scavage around all these sites. May even try panning the creek to see if anything has washed down my way. Also the usual baloons with tags from school and church groups.

If you find some "silver colored gold" be warned that it is gold with mercury contamination. Keep it separate from the yellow stuff and handle accordingly. Also, the Gold Sands district of Franklin County also produced diamonds. Most of the mining was hydro jet mining, so the creeks would be your best bet.
 

lasttombstone

Kinder, Gentler LTS
"If you find some "silver colored gold" be warned that it is gold with mercury contamination. Keep it separate from the yellow stuff and handle accordingly. Also, the Gold Sands district of Franklin County also produced diamonds. Most of the mining was hydro jet mining, so the creeks would be your best bet. "

By "handle accordingly" you don't mean play with on your desktop like we did the mercury in high school? How am I still alive. LOL.
All this mining stuff is here on the Granville Co. farm. Bet there are 20 prospect sites here. Guess it was a bust but there is an inactive mine just across 49 from me that I hear has been bought and the possibility of re-opening it.
 

ibgreen

Twelve Pointer
Contributor
Most of the old maps list Granville as primarily copper mining with gold byproduct. I thought maybe you were in western Franklin county. Main reason regarding the mercury is that if you do find the yellow stuff, the mercury laced gold will spread to the other.
 

lasttombstone

Kinder, Gentler LTS
Most of the old maps list Granville as primarily copper mining with gold byproduct. I thought maybe you were in western Franklin county. Main reason regarding the mercury is that if you do find the yellow stuff, the mercury laced gold will spread to the other.

Maybe you need to come help me look sometime. 50/50??
 

wolfpacker

Twelve Pointer
Contributor
Good thread, finding stuff is always fun. i seemed to find sunglasses all over the place, found some decent oakleys at butner-falls, still wear them. and then of course when i do buy myself a decent pair of sunglasses i lose them in the woods playing golf.
 

FishHunt

Old Mossy Horns
Like a lot of others, I found the usual old grave sites on the hunting ground in Franklin Co. years ago. A usual tale tell sign of old graves is periwinkle. Since I've been up here I've found 5 still sites on the 185 ac., most of which I'm told belonged to the brother of the gentleman I bought the place from. This area had gold and silver mines going at the turn of the century and my farm is covered with prospecting sites, holes with piles of white quarts split flat from where they were looking for signs of gold. One of these days I'm gonna get a metal detector and scavage around all these sites. May even try panning the creek to see if anything has washed down my way. Also the usual baloons with tags from school and church groups.

I've got a decent metal detector let me know if you want to look around one day or if you want to borrow it for a spell.

The family farm here was once part of a working gold mine. There was a stamp mill in place, a couple of big open shafts, man made water reservoir that pumped water a 1/2 mile to the stamp mill and numerous test holes/ditches. I can't recall all the mining related junk I hauled out of the mine woods when I was a kid. The most memorable find I can recall was a brand new freshly stolen Camaro parked and partially stripped. That was sometime around 1979 or 1980.

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lasttombstone

Kinder, Gentler LTS
I've got a decent metal detector let me know if you want to look around one day or if you want to borrow it for a spell.

The family farm here was once part of a working gold mine. There was a stamp mill in place, a couple of big open shafts, man made water reservoir that pumped water a 1/2 mile to the stamp mill and numerous test holes/ditches. I can't recall all the mining related junk I hauled out of the mine woods when I was a kid. The most memorable find I can recall was a brand new freshly stolen Camaro parked and partially stripped. That was sometime around 1979 or 1980.

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If you ever decide to come back up and try the yotes again bring it on. No telling what we might find around some of those places. Also, I picked up a fox pro I haven't been able to use so you can try that out as well.
 

getTwisted

Ten Pointer
My wife and I like to go to Stone Mountain (haven't been since the EHD outbreak). Although you can't hunt there we still like to go off the beaten path and look for deer sign, rubs, scrapes etc. One day we stumbled upon an extremely old grave sight from the 1800's I believe. 2 full size stones and 1 or 2 other stones that had been completely warn down. It was in the middle of a huge thicket. No paths leading to it. Pretty cool to see.
 

dobber

Old Mossy Horns
years ago while cutting a trail we started to rake the leaves and sticks away making it nice and easy to walk down, found an old horse shoe from a farm that had to be gone many years before. Found some old stone fences out in the middle of no where, some old homestead but all that was left was the fence, about 3' high, 3' wide
 

rustvyper

Ten Pointer
Found a number 4 trap & a double barrel shotgun in the hollow of the tree.
The trap's chain had been laid over a for in the tree & the chain had grown well into the tree.
The shotgun had been leaned into the hollow of the tree. The stock & triggerguard were long gone. Only the barrels & they were kind of grown into the now rotten dead wood of the inner tree.
They basically crumbled apart when we tried to get it out.
 

dpekera

Lead Foot
You will never go back to that spot and not think " where the hell did that coconut come from " and not laugh :D
 

Frostcat

Twelve Pointer
I've found a lot of interesting stuff from the logging days of the early 1900's, but one of the strangest things I have ever found was a bowling ball in a very rugged area. I was definitely surprised to see it there, and no, I didn't carry it out.
 
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