Stuff you find

[Stan Hillis]

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.

[WHO]

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?

[charlie cleveland]

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

[Big D]

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!

[Gary Laudermilch]

Not a cant hook. It is a peavy.

[Big D]

Touche! You're right

[Big D]

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

[Mills]

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

[Richard Flanders]

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.

[double barrel]

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.