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craziest stuff u ever found on the trails?

Knifemaker

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Joined
Apr 4, 2011
Messages
174
Loc.
Youngsville, La.
About ten years ago on a trail one morning saw a camera on side of trail stopped picked it up nice cannon still had a charge on battery took pictures with it all day then turned it in at office at end of day. Checked back next day someone had claimed it hope they liked the pictures.
 

Bucky66

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Jun 20, 2010
Messages
552
When on some trails in north Georgia. We did a trail out in no where with a couple creek crossings and found a school bus up there. Now, how you make the tight turns and water crossings in a school bus I have no idea but I could learn alot from whoever got it out there.
 

stout22

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Bronco Guru
Joined
Dec 13, 2006
Messages
2,887
Loc.
Athens, AL
Back in the late 70's I helped a friends dad recover his truck. He had been turkey hunting in a national forest and left something turned on that drained the battery. He walked out and called me to pick him up and then go jump his truck off. I had a 78 Bronco and it required 4 wheel drive to get in there. On the way up the mountain we came to a point where there were three really big mud holes. He told me to take the mud hole furthest to the right but try to keep an eye on the middle mud hole. As we got to the other side he asked me if I saw the VW. I told him all I saw was a stick poking out. We got out and looked - it wasn't a stick it was the VWs antenna!
 

JohnJohn

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Bronco Guru
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May 6, 2005
Messages
2,171
Loc.
Richmond
Some of my friends I used to teach scuba with went for a trail ride up to an old rock quarry in WV that was filled with water. They wanted to dive it and see what was in it.
They found a van around 90 Feet with a dead guy in the drivers seat with a bullet hole on the side of his head. He had been shot and pushed in just a few days before.
My friends were trespassing but called the police and helped them recover the van by diving back down and hooking the winch cable from the tow truck so they could pull it out.
They had to go to court and testify and a few weeks later.
I read an article that the guy owned a Pawn Shop and was laundering drug money. The article said the guy had a briefcase next to him in the van with $100k in cash.
I told my friend next time check the van before you call the police.
True story.
 

lonesouth

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Bronco Guru
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Dec 18, 2003
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Hauled a boat, 22'+ out of the ANF a few years back. Lots of condoms, couches, tires. The boat was the really odd one.

Found an alligator snapping turtle after running through a mud hole. Turtle was about 3" long, made a good pet for about 4 years, till it became too aggressive at around 6" and I had to release it.
 
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motoman

Bronco Guru
Joined
Jan 29, 2002
Messages
1,729
Loc.
Phoenix, AZ
This was the largest Scorpion I've ever seen! About 8" long! Gasline road where it goes under I-17

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Peck Canyon Trip 2004 Rattlesnake and not happy to see us

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69 Fl. Bronc

Sr. Member
Joined
Aug 8, 2007
Messages
911
Found a dead guy on Halloween who died from carbon monoxide from a hibachi in his van a few days before.
 

Rox Crusher

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Joined
Dec 13, 2008
Messages
2,775
Last year while on a week end camping trip with CCB members I found a 40 S&W.

Brand new in a nice holster.

That night we went to a neighboring campsite to borrow a chainsaw and the guy said that he had lost his gun earlier in the day. He was able to describe it perfectly so I gave it to him.

He was so happy to get it back he almost started crying.
 

Buldozer

Bronco Virtuoso
Joined
Oct 17, 2007
Messages
3,065
Loc.
God's Country
Back in the early 80's I was headed outside Houston deer hunting and drove up on one of those "Smokey & the Bandit" style Trans-Am's with T-Tops and all way back on a trail I used to get into a place I deer hunted. After I finished hunting I got the Sheriff to come get it....it was stolen of course..%)
 

Tedster100

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Aug 25, 2010
Messages
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we r planing a trip there in june just trying to get a head count on who all can go.how was it i hear its great down there

It was a while back when we went, stayed in a town called "Man". It's called that cause when you get there and look around you say "Man.....where the hell are we". Anyhow, the riding was not a lot different than some local areas a lot closer so on day two we let one of the locals talk us into riding on "his family's place", ended up being an old strip mine area, rode so far we were marking the trail so we could get back. That's actually where we found the jet ski. Locals were very friendly, waved at us as we followed the local guy down a 4 lane highway on our quads, no joke.

I hear it's really gotten a lot better with more trails since we were there last. The locals are friendly and a lot of the economy revolves around the trails...and making meth so I'm told, so be careful.
 

bosshoff

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Sr. Member
Joined
Mar 30, 2004
Messages
715
Rox crusher

Last year while on a week end camping trip with CCB members I found a 40 S&W.

Brand new in a nice holster.

That night we went to a neighboring campsite to borrow a chainsaw and the guy said that he had lost his gun earlier in the day. He was able to describe it perfectly so I gave it to him.

He was so happy to get it back he almost started crying.

Good karma here i'd say.
 

rjrobin2002

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Bronco Guru
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Oct 13, 2007
Messages
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I found a lost, hot blonde on a horse down in Kisatchie National Forest while riding my 4-wheeler. I tried to help her when she asked directions and she started running her mouth about how "If I have to stay the night out her I will survive, I am in the Army." She was dipping, had tattoos down her forearms, and was cursing like a sailor. I just started laughing and drove off thinking "I guess the Army did not teach you to read a map."
My father-in-law was riding in Mena, Arkansas a few months back and in the middle on the woods a prostitute came out of the woods and started hitting in him. He saw a tent down by a creek deep in the woods where she came from. When my mother-in-law came pulling up on her 4-wheeler, the woman apologized and ran off.
I guess its a Southern thing.
 
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