When I was boy tramping through all the woods, up and down streams and creeks, and traversing swamps in search of game rich country I would often find the remains of old corn liquor stills. Most were destroyed by the sheriff's deputies with pick axes, but I would occasionally happen by one in working order. One day while squirrel hunting in new territory I found three on the same branch, undamaged. I often wondered if the owners hadn't heard that Hillis kid coming and slinked off and watched me pause for a look, then pass on by. Some of them used a "shotgun" condenser, crafted of soldered copper. Those were works of art.

There's still a very few, well hidden deep in isolated stream bottoms, but it's not the big business it was when I was a boy.

This thread reminded me of a couple of guns my dad found in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the 1950's. The revolver was found in the wye of a tree. The tree had grown around it and the gun needed to be cut out of the tree. The muzzleloader was found still fairly complete. I refinished the wood and polished the brass. Once refinished, I noticed the notches near the butt of the gun. I have always wondered what they might represent?

the notches would make a great storey if we knew what they mint.....what happened to the trigger in the pistol...this pistol looks like a smith and Wesson 38 special or a old 32-20........interesting stuff...the only guns I ever found was a coupla single barrel 12 ga I fixed the old guns up and traded them off thru the years......charlie

Cant hook from the river in front of my cabin, Probably 120 years old. Free to anyone who wants to come and get it. I ain't shipping it!

Not a cant hook. It is a peavy.

Touche! You're right

Peavey is spoken for. That's what happens when you let Dave Tatman "Kentucky Bird Hunter" move in a half mile from you

Moonshine stills are all over the woods where I hunt. Like Stan says, most have ax marks in them.

Phil, that harbor magnet is a nice one! They're made for fetching tools you drop overboard. I have one way bigger that I use to find dropped nuts, bolts, nails, screws and washers and such when working on things in the tall grass around my house. I could crawl under a car much easier with yours than with mine.

Many years ago my wife's grandfather and his brother were tearing down a log cabin somewhere near Redding California and found this colt pocket navy pistol in its holster. I bought it from my wife's aunt when she had it for sale at there yard sale about 40 years ago.