Most unusual thing you've seen in the woods

[oldgoat]

Was quail hunting in Nevada in an area that also had some pheasants. Had a guy with us that said he had been hunting before, he seemed like a guy t that would know how. He was on other side of tree line and I hadn't seen my bird dog for a bit and I hollered over and asked him if he could see him. He said yeah, he could him and said the dog was locked solid and shaking, I hollered back and told him that means he's on point and that there was probably a quail or pheasant and that he should kick the bush and make it fly. He said ok, and then we heard him hollering, "it's a pheasant, it's a pheasant" and we also heard this weird noise like a bugle being blown by somebody that didn't know how to play one. And over the tree line came a peacock flying, we were laughing so hard we almost fell out! Figured out that guy hadn't really been hunting all that much!

 

[mj23polaris]

I was probably three or four miles from the nearest road when I found an inflated balloon. Not super hard to figure out how it got there, but still weird to find in the middle of a meadow when you haven't seen a soul for 3 days.

Same thing here I got a birthday balloon I found in the middle of a sage brush meadow in SE Montana. Still had helium in it. N yes I sucked it up to talk like a jackass

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[LIWolverine]

Same thing here I got a birthday balloon I found in the middle of a sage brush meadow in SE Montana. Still had helium in it. N yes I sucked it up to talk like a jackass

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Haha! I would have done the same. No shame. Lol


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[MtnOyster]

filmed a guy stealing a wheel off of a disc we used for farming next to the woods i bow hunt in, while he was getting the wheel off his girlfriend hopped out of the truck and took a piss while i was filming this with my i-phone, i sicked the sheriff on him but told them to leave her alone! she had too nice of an arse to prosecute!!! AND I MEAN NICE!!!

 

[Ashy Larry]

I don't believe much into it his theories, but David Paulidas has a book or radio series called Missing 411 about odd occurrences in National Forests. It's creepy AF and entertaining if you look it up.

 

[CorbLand]

Same thing here I got a birthday balloon I found in the middle of a sage brush meadow in SE Montana. Still had helium in it. N yes I sucked it up to talk like a jackass

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Would of thought less of you if you didn't.



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[KurtR]

When I was 16 dove hunting out here we went on the wrong land and in the middle of a corn field was about an acre of weed. We turned around and left as fast as we could.......

 

[buttekid]

Worse thing was stumbling upon a suicide victim and I had my young sons with me. ...Something I never imagined I would have to explain as a parent. Funniest thing was thinking I was stalking elk in the national forest in very thick trees and seeing occasional movement only to discover they were a pair of emus that had escaped from a place at the bottom of the mountain.

 

[Jskaanland]

I've just found 2 old anheuser busch bottles 2 miles apart, that the stamps on the bottom say they were last produced in 1903.

 

[wasatchcomm]

A few years back a friend of mine bid on a evening of squatching with Cliff Barackman (Finding Bigfoot) as our guide, my buddy has a cabin near Mt St. Helens, here in washington, we had a few guys from around sw washington here and also he had a few of his friends from minesota out for a week long summer dude party. we played poker and had shooting competitions at the rock quarry near his cabin.
one of the guys is a accomplished hunter and has killed nearly every species of north american game, he is known in the hunting community, i will keep his name private,,,anyhow, he has seen many things..

long story short we meet up with Cliff at a spot on the mountain exchange hello's, talk with him, now we have been tipping back a few cold ones, we did have designated drivers as well.

their is 8 of us

we had made a bet ($20 per person) prior to meeting him as who could tell Cliff a bigfoot story and not laugh about it while telling,
we spent 5 hours in the cold dark night calling for bigfoot, any noise, tree moving or wind blowing, Cliff made sure to let us know it was a bigfoot, he split us up into two groups and we called back and forth, we had a recording device he gave us,,,, we forgot we had it with us and were talking some $#!) about Cliff with other group and tried to figure out how to delete it. all in all it was one of the most hilarious nights i have spent in the woods, we finally all told Cliff thank you for the night and left, while he stayed to call out more bigfoots.
the dude is certifiable you ask me.
He told us all his dream is to find a BILF..yes i said it,, a BILF

i was on the ground laughing so hard,, he didn't care, i still cannot for the life of me figure this guy out, is he really serious or just playing everyone like fools?

SO , Cliff is the strangest thing i have ever seen in the woods,, hands down.......
i will never forget this night....

 

[TheCougar]

I know on pretty much every hunting trip, I will be hiking in a place so steep and so nasty and so thick that I think to myself "I wonder if anyone has ever walked here in the last thousand years." Then I will look down and see a six pack of spent coors bottles. I'm torn between hating the people that do that and wonder/admiration for the guy who lugged a six pack of bottles up a talus slope at 10,000 feet. I mean, who does that? The most athletic alcoholic ever?

 

[ceng]

When I was about 12 a buddy and I were out in the woods shooting things with our .22's. We saw these patches of snow missing in a sort of path. We followed it till we found an ice chest. It was full of porn magazines, we decided we would ventilate the ice chest with our .22's. One mistake we made was my buddy forgot to unload some snake shot he had. Suffice to say it ricochets off of a metal Coleman ice chest and hit us both in the legs it stung but didn't penetrate the skin. It was just a weird thing to find.

 

[Hall256]

I know on pretty much every hunting trip, I will be hiking in a place so steep and so nasty and so thick that I think to myself "I wonder if anyone has ever walked here in the last thousand years." Then I will look down and see a six pack of spent coors bottles. I'm torn between hating the people that do that and wonder/admiration for the guy who lugged a six pack of bottles up a talus slope at 10,000 feet. I mean, who does that? The most athletic alcoholic ever?

^^^^THIS!
It never ceases to amaze me the terrain I have covered, having that same sense of accomplishment that I am probably walking somewhere no one else has walked, and not only is there some trash but it is shit like beer cans. Cougar, I am with you...there must be some crazy fit alcoholics out there.

 

[Ross]

A nude selfie picture taped to a tree with a note for her boyfriend....best big rack I have seen in the backcountry

 

[Olsolitaire1]

Heres one I came across a couple of miles back off trail?

Not sure if this story fits here, but when I was in my early 20s hunting whitetail with my dad back in CT. My dad got us private land permit on this old farm in town. The farmer told us that no one else has permission to be on his land and to report anyone. Well one cold morning we just worked along the edge of a swamp and was coming into this old grove of oaks, big old monster trees. The warm morning sun shining on this one big tree. I then seen my dad motion to me, pointing ahead and to move quietly, but also telling me to lower my shotgun? When I got near the tree, I saw a hunter/trespasser sleeping soundly in the warm sun with a 30/30 alongside him against the tree. My dad took the rifle and stepped behind the tree and unloaded it, pocketing the rounds, then placed the rifle upside down there behind the tree, we then snuck away. So maybe that was one unusual thing that ever happen to that guy in the woods?

 

[fishslap]

I hiked in to a spot in Colorado about 5 miles scouting a new deer spot. There is an old road that goes in but it's been closed for quite awhile. At the edge of a meadow I found a metal post in the ground with an iron grate and crowbar welded on top. On the front it has "jake's bar & grill" welded in. Let me know if anyone has seen this or knows about it.

 

[WV Mountaineer]

Strangest thing I've ever found was Marijuana fields. I've found a 1/2 dozen. Some were nestled into timber cut overs and, had no boobie traps. Others were boobie trapped pretty heavily I'm assuming as there was fishing twine running every where. Eerry feeling.

 

[Huntindog45]

ha... figured I wasnt the only one. My son and I found a skull a few years ago. It ended up solving a missing person case.

 

[skaldugwas]

We were camping near a pretty well used lake and kept having some rodent getting into out stuff. Finally the critter got under the floor of the tent and was crawling around... so we stomped it. When we pulled the tent up to our surprise we had just killed someones pet longhaired guinea pig.

 

[oldgoat]

Found this hanging in a tree elk hunting, globe still intact, research says it's common and not work anything of any real value, tree wasn't super old so probably got there in my lifetime. Wife was the one that found it, we were teasing her that a ghost would haunt her looking for his lantern!

This is back in the woods a long ways from existing roads, the picture below was a free yards away and is a single bit plow of some type, the driver door on the car still opens smooth with no grinding or squeaking! My guess is somebody squatted back in there during the depression or something, still a four or five acres clearing that could of been farmed and a few logs left from a cabin, bootleg operation was another speculation I had. Fun stuff in the woods!