What strange things have you found while out hunting, fishing?
I've found quite a few from: a red arm chair out in the middle of the woods (most likely put there by a hunter who left it there to rot); to what I am guessing was a hunting blind constructed of fairly flat stones that you would have to lay down in to get inside of it to be concealed; to a guy inside a hide he had made of pine branches who was trespassing on my uncle's farm and who just stared at me silently when I tried to talk to him (later found out he was part of a hunting party, the leader of which explained to me the guy had mental problems and rarely spoke; yet, they had left him alone in the woods armed with a hunting rifle while supposedly unknowingly trespassing); to this that I found while hunting on public land in the Cascade Valley State Forest in upstate NY in 2016:
I guess somebody needed a target to see if he was sighted in, otherwise just got bored and wanted badly to shoot something. Need I mention, while hunting, I am always on fairly high alert for morons especially when hunting on public land. Anyway, I wish I had something next to the hole for scale but as best I can remember it was around the size of a quarter. Figuring a shotgun slug was used to punch it. I've seen odd things that folks have shot at but this one won first prize for odd things I've found in the woods. By the way, in the first picture, it's propped just as I found it on the tree. I first noticed it from maybe 40-50 yards away at most. As I got closer to it, I was intrigued by the hole so took a closer look.
I've found quite a few from: a red arm chair out in the middle of the woods (most likely put there by a hunter who left it there to rot); to what I am guessing was a hunting blind constructed of fairly flat stones that you would have to lay down in to get inside of it to be concealed; to a guy inside a hide he had made of pine branches who was trespassing on my uncle's farm and who just stared at me silently when I tried to talk to him (later found out he was part of a hunting party, the leader of which explained to me the guy had mental problems and rarely spoke; yet, they had left him alone in the woods armed with a hunting rifle while supposedly unknowingly trespassing); to this that I found while hunting on public land in the Cascade Valley State Forest in upstate NY in 2016:
I guess somebody needed a target to see if he was sighted in, otherwise just got bored and wanted badly to shoot something. Need I mention, while hunting, I am always on fairly high alert for morons especially when hunting on public land. Anyway, I wish I had something next to the hole for scale but as best I can remember it was around the size of a quarter. Figuring a shotgun slug was used to punch it. I've seen odd things that folks have shot at but this one won first prize for odd things I've found in the woods. By the way, in the first picture, it's propped just as I found it on the tree. I first noticed it from maybe 40-50 yards away at most. As I got closer to it, I was intrigued by the hole so took a closer look.
