I got to take a walk in the woods today to look for shed antlers with buks2hunt (Bill)! Bill's home for a bit on leave from serving in Afganistan and I was greatfull he took some time to spend with me in the woods and I want to apoligize to his family for "hogging" him today! Thanks for the walk Bill.
Anyway we didn't find any sheds today but did come accross a strange bone. I think it's a piece of a skull but I'm not sure what type of critter.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill007.jpg)
If anyone has any idea I would appreciate it as it's a weird one for me. It has what looks like some kind of long tooth on one side.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill008.jpg)
The tooth kind of looks like maybe a pigs tusk but the whole piece is not that big.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill001.jpg)
Any ideas?
a couple more pictures.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill009.jpg)
We fouund this in a large pine thicket if that helps anyone!
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill002.jpg)
Oh I forgot to add in the first post, it rained and the wind howled terrible but we still managed to have a good time! and found a few new places were goping to have to set up for deer season!
We also found the worlds ugliest osage tree! Can you imagine the bow from this one?
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/awalkwithbill005-1.jpg)
It was like this for 8 foot or so and than just the normal osage tree look. Those are some serious knots and twist right there!
looks like a E'l Chucacabra skull
The tooth almost looks like a broken bone. Could it be a bone tumor or some sort of abnormal bone growth?
If you cut that osage, I'd like to try a piece!!!
Adeeden,
I don't thing that is a skull. There is no nasal vent, spinal cord entry, eye sockets, and I didn't really notice any muscle attachment points, for where the lower jaw muscles wrap up around behind the eyes. I think it must have been a horribly broken bone and the resulting calcium deposit. It is cool though, wish I would have found it. just my opinion.
-Hillbilly
Hillbilly, I don't disagree with you at all! But with that being said what other piece of bone is this size (besides a skull) from anything around here? All we got is Deer , coyotes, an occasional bobcat, racoons, and such. So if it isn't a piece of a skull what part of a critter could it be?
Did ya find a space craft near by?
Are you sure it's from an animal?
QuoteOriginally posted by vermonster13:
Are you sure it's from an animal?
At this point I am not sure of anything!
HUMAN? PELVIC GIRDLE???
Possibly a broken leg bone that became infected? That tooth looks like some sort of long bone to me, and the pourous constitution of the other stiff makes me think so sort of infected bone growth.
Strange fine whatever it is.
Not sure on the bone but I would love to have the osage , I like to make bows from wood like that.
Goat Sucker, without a doubt.
Jimmerc, didnt even think about that...does look like it is possible. :scared:
Might be worth having someone look it over.
I was thinking hip.
Seriously, calcium deposit or bone irreglarity make sense. But you might want to get it checked, just in case.
A broken, deformed femur of one tough critter.Whatever it was obviously lived on for a while with that mess of a leg.Id bet on a pig or deer.
The dug up and chewd on skull of the elephant man?!
Part of hip joint would be my guess.
Why yes I do.Its the other half of this..bd (http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/bowdocsarchery/elksass001.jpg) (http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/bowdocsarchery/elksass002.jpg)
That osage could produce the most beautiful veneer! For sure nothing boring in that grain!
F-Manny
This is getting X-Files! What in the world is that?
BowDoc that is an interesting bone as well, we could make a very unusual skeleton!
Did anyone else see the face in the osage tree?
Dan
I'm not sure what you've got there but i have something else to add too. About 10 years ago i found this tooth at my dads place in central north dakota. i don't know of anything that lives around there with a tooth like that. thought it could be an old mountain lion tooth? i drilled the hole for a necklace, wish i could take it back now. thanks, Dan.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b194/MN_Littles/100_5421.jpg)
The osage looks almost like it has faces in it, like a totem pole. It would make a gnarly self bow for sure, but think about how cool some limb lams would look from it with all that figure.
I see the face! right at the top of the pic, and another right below it looking to the right :scared: Looks like "Elvis".
You mean this face
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii45/heilakka/face.jpg)
this is a cool thread :archer:
Did you find any 5 legged frogs? With deformed trees and bones, I'd keep my eyes open. Radiation :scared:
Any unsolved missing persons reports in the area? Cool tooth!
Return to area 51, Earthman.
Resistence to futile.
That's bone, but it's a definate deformation, it can be from any animal, maybe it had some sort of bone cancer or something.
BIGFOOT!
Im guessing severely deformed hog's lower jaw. Shot in the jaw, hit by a truck, something to make it heal in such an odd manor.
Mine is the right shoulder socket of an old bowhunter who was pulling to much draw weight..
OK just kidding I found it in the Cascades Mtns.my buddy is a vet and checked it out for me.Mine is an elk hip socket that must have been damaged when it was a youngster.That is all calcium built up around that socket and point of the hip bone showing in the pic...cool stuff.bd
Dennis it seems you always find something cool whenever you take a walk in the woods.Cool find.
Man, don't cut that osage. It has spirits in it :)
There's stuff that's made to be bows and there's stuff that's made to be trees. I'm voting tree on this one.
Beaver skull????
Gopher - looks like a sharks tooth to me. I've found many like it on the beaches. Could be a very old remenant.
The tooth isn't flat in cross section it is round, aren't sharks teeth more flat? and i found it in central North Dakota.
I'm with John. Leave the spirits of that tree alone. maybe they will create good mojo for those woods.
Yes, the tree is safe! Mainly because it is 10 feet on the wrong side of the fence....... Well I don't know if I would cut it or not as I noticed the faces as soon as I saw it myself. I have to admit though I did think about cutting it and useing it in my den as a pole bark on just like in the picture! Besides there's to many "hollars" between here and there to wrestle it without using half of the tradgang members............
That tooth might be a badger claw and not a tooth at all.
ChuckC
Don't know about the rest but gopher's does not look like any sharks tooth I've ever seen. I used to collect them and have had thousands. The first thing that came to mind was a very nice turkey spur.
QuoteOriginally posted by Arrow k9:
looks like a E'l Chucacabra skull
Yep you know it!
I've been thinkin (lots of smoke!! ) It looks to me like that tooth is a broken bone with lots of calcium deposit?
QuoteOriginally posted by illianabowhntr67:
Dennis it seems you always find something cool whenever you take a walk in the woods.Cool find.
Jeff, You have no idea of the weird things I seem to attract (find in the woods)! Just this week I found the weird bone, funky tree, a couple sheds, a quiver with 4 gold tip arrows and montec broadheads, and strangely enough someones watch! I can't wait to see what I stumble across this weekend!
Hey that's my watch!
(If its a Rolex)
to me I looks like a dog skul
drawing on my yrs in medicine i would vote for a pelvic gridle with a broken leg bone.looks like a hip socket just above the bone frag.why not chip away a piece or two and see whats at the end of the bone in there. what does the correct guess win??
I vote with John and razorback on the tree; there are definitely things that should be left as they are.
On the tooth I'm voting with ChuckC - looks more like a claw to me than a tooth - mostly because my limited imagination is having trouble orienting it as tooth that would be more harm to prey than to the animal itself.
Looks like the cheek bone from a girl I used to know.I shedded the last two days and was lucky to find my way back!!!Keep it up Dennis!!Going now with my new [shed] dog- he doesn't know he's one yet!John
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Maybe that tooth came from a bite, interested to find out what it is.
i thought of a claw too but when i think of a claw i think of a finger nail type horn material, this really looks like a bone/tooth type of material.
Giant Albino Spotted Pygmie Whooping Woluf.
I have no idea. It's new to me. Maybe take it to a university biology lab or something?
i might be goin out on a limb here, but do you think that tooth lookin bone could be some sort of spear or arrow tip?
The bone is clearly from a skunk ape
(the smaller arboreal variety).
Don't cut that tree, Pinocchio is living inside it! To be honest,it scares me a little.
Maybe even an eagle or large owl talon.
ChuckC