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132 Year-old Winchester rifle found against a tree at Great Basin National Park
The Washington Times ^ | January 14, 2015 | Douglas Ernst

Posted on 01/14/2015 6:40:49 PM PST by jazusamo

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To: Antoninus II

If you could trace it all the way back to say Bat Masterson or any other character of the time, the gun’s price would go way up.

Just an old rifle left in the woods until it rusted and the wood cracked would probaly not bring much at all.


61 posted on 01/14/2015 7:27:30 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I What am persuaded.)
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To: jazusamo

My Dad found a side-by-side 12 gauge in a partially collapsed dug-out, western OK, late ‘30s. Damascus twist barrel so not safe for modern loads. It’s mounted on my wall.


62 posted on 01/14/2015 7:30:39 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: txhurl

One of these scraggly bushes is what the tree in question would have looked like 132 years ago. Pretty cool mystery.

63 posted on 01/14/2015 7:30:52 PM PST by txhurl
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To: jazusamo

It was cliff Robertsons gun I am sure of it


64 posted on 01/14/2015 7:32:29 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: jmacusa
"Wonder what happened to the owner."

"All these damn trees look alike!"
65 posted on 01/14/2015 7:34:32 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: jazusamo
He'd come back for it but he's a ghost now...
66 posted on 01/14/2015 7:35:25 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: jmacusa

Gone to Texas?


67 posted on 01/14/2015 7:36:27 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: TADSLOS

That is what first popped into my head! A Hawken for Jeramiah!


68 posted on 01/14/2015 7:42:28 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Beowulf9

Have you taken the tour of Sarah Winchester’s house? I’m convinced Stephen King stole the idea for his book “Rose Red” or “The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer” from that spook house.


69 posted on 01/14/2015 7:45:00 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Lets git 'er done!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

70 posted on 01/14/2015 7:45:07 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo
We lived in Yorktown Virginia when my husband was in the USCoastGuard.
I went to a yard sale and bought for $10 a pistol that a neighbor had found on the Yorktown Battlefield. I had an expert look at it and he said it was French and made between 1730 and 1760. I guess someone died on the Yorktown battlefield and dropped the pistol where it was found 200 years later.
71 posted on 01/14/2015 7:47:51 PM PST by Ditter
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To: tumblindice

No, and it’s one of my hopes. I’m not far from it being from Phoenix.

Have not read that but that is very interesting.


72 posted on 01/14/2015 7:53:28 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: jazusamo

“Another great unannounced advertisement for American made lever action rifles!”, so the Free American says.

“A rifle lurking around The Great Basin!!! Quick! Call the FBI! Call DHS!!”, so the liberal says.

I say, “Cool!, now let’s get this to a museum, before some knucklehead Communist wants to ban it from existence!”


73 posted on 01/14/2015 7:53:41 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: jazusamo

Nice. I usually need to scuba dive to get mine.


74 posted on 01/14/2015 7:56:02 PM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: tumblindice

When I was young there were a fair number of Damascus barrelled shotguns around, the wall is where they belong. :-)


75 posted on 01/14/2015 8:00:51 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: Terry L Smith

Yep, it belongs in the Great Basin NP museum or whatever facility they have for visitors.


76 posted on 01/14/2015 8:03:19 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: Beowulf9

It’s a lot of fun. I was there zooming up and down the coast with my new bride hitting all the tourist spots, gold, wine country, Hearst castle with my bride. She had never been to CA.
Anyway we were trooping down a hallway of ‘ The Winchester Mystery House’ and hit a ‘cold spot’—on an upper 80s summer day, San Jose, I think. Really made the hairs on my arms stand up.
Mrs. Winchester was convinced that Indians and other souls killed with her husband’s firearms would get her if the hammers stopped pounding and building.


77 posted on 01/14/2015 8:04:00 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: fso301

That tree is over 132 years old? I’m starting to smell BS.


78 posted on 01/14/2015 8:11:37 PM PST by pke
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To: tumblindice

Took my mother to Hearst Castle couple of years ago. She revealed to my husband and I that she (we’re from NY) had been wanting to go since she heard about it on the news when she was 9 years old. She was 84 when we went!


79 posted on 01/14/2015 8:12:48 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: marktwain

Ping.


80 posted on 01/14/2015 8:18:30 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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