Horse shoes with nails still in place?

[dieselram94]

In the past week or so I have dug a ox shoe with nails still intact and in place, and yesterday I found a large horseshoe with nails still intact and in place as well. Both these targets were found in the woods in Maine about 30 feet apart in a place where I believe logging has taken place in the distant past. My question is are horse shoes and ox shoes usually found with nails intact?

 

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[christo000]

I have found horse shoes I'd say I relic hunt more then any other I never had any nails still intact send some pics interestd

 

[dieselram94]

Christo, here are some pics of the ox shoe, I will post some of the horseshoe in the morning. It just stuck me as very odd I found two shoes with nails intact very close together from two different types of animals.

 

[dieselram94]

I tend to like the relic hunting best as well, although I have not done much the beach hunting is calling my name in Florida!

 

[christo000]

Wow I haven't seen nails in shoes never mind that many that's a, 2 great finds man I hear ya on the beach hunting I been thinking of it lately aswell just something different to try anyway great finds maine is an awesome place I have quite a bit of family up there hopefully ill be headed that way soon

 

[dieselram94]

What part of Maine is your family in?

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[BadM0nkey]

Yes they almost always have nails

 

[christo000]

What part of Maine is your family in?

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Farmington

 

[creskol]

I found one years ago with the hoof still attached.

 

[dieselram94]

I found one years ago with the hoof still attached.

That's pretty cool! There's gotta be quite a story behind that one.

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[dieselram94]

Here are a couple pictures...
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[christo000]

Definetly cool Man.so r u far from farmington at all

 

[dieselram94]

Definetly cool Man.so r u far from farmington at all

I am about an hour and a half to two hours away. Where do you hunt when you come up?

 

[christo000]

My great uncle up there he has 75 acres mostly old logging roads they uses to be an old camp up in the middle of his land the amount of time i get to go up I got no issues in there grab a sidexside a pup tent & c ya later lol

 

[treasurehound]

I have found a lot of horseshoes with nails in them while relic hunting. They are not that uncommon. And I have found a lot of the nails without the horseshoe. lol

 

[christo000]

Ya seems there more common then i had thought I guess it probly pends on ur location & condition of the shoe mayb ones ive found did have the nails just to coroded to c anyways great funda

 

[christo000]

Finds lol

 

[grlangfitt]

It looks like the ox shoes may not have been used. If they were the nails would have been cut off and bent over like they do with horses. Cool find.

 

[fadetoblack]

I found one years ago with the hoof still attached.

You just made my morning!!

 

[dieselram94]

My great uncle up there he has 75 acres mostly old logging roads they uses to be an old camp up in the middle of his land the amount of time i get to go up I got no issues in there grab a sidexside a pup tent & c ya later lol

Sounds like a cool place to hunt! I am sure that place is hiding some cool finds!