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The mystery of the 132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against a national park tree
Post ^ | 1/14/15 | Elahe Izadi

Posted on 01/15/2015 6:23:25 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight

Archaeologists conducting surveys in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park came upon a gun frozen in time: a .44-40 Winchester rifle manufactured in 1882. It was propped up against a juniper tree.


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TOPICS: History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 1873; 1882; banglist; godsgravesglyphs; greatbasin; greatbasinnp; guns; history; model1873; nationalpark; nevada; park; rifle; rifles; treasure; winchester; winchester73; winchesterrifle
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To: Paladin2

The tape was placed there to cover up the “Cruz for 2016” carving.


21 posted on 01/15/2015 6:39:25 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Alex Murphy; NowApproachingMidnight; yldstrk

I think the picture shows that the orange tape was added after they found it, to hold it together.

I can easily believe that someone left it there a long time ago for any of a hundred different reasons. Death included.

Too bad that the person who originally found it did not take a series of photographs of it as was found, because the manner it was set down would have helped in the explanation.


22 posted on 01/15/2015 6:40:54 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

If it was an AK it would probably still work.


23 posted on 01/15/2015 6:41:34 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Paladin2

Lon Horuchi is sighting in a mother as we speak.


24 posted on 01/15/2015 6:43:36 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: SampleMan

Not that I claim expert status....but I’m more likely to think it was dropped there within the past fifty years.

Course, this would lead onto a good four-star movie script...”The Tale of the Winchester”. Maybe some drunk cowboy....maybe a deal gone bad...maybe some wife who shot her husband and ditched the gun.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 6:46:52 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it. … It is a good rifle and killed the bear that killed me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.


26 posted on 01/15/2015 6:46:59 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: wbarmy
See post #16. That pic is how it was found. leaning on the tree.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3246956/posts

27 posted on 01/15/2015 6:47:50 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: SampleMan

“I wonder how many people that rifle killed while it was left unattended all this time?”

I can’t figure out why the rifle didn’t get up chase those guys around the forest...it has a mind of it’s own, according the the MSM.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 6:51:22 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: SampleMan

Maybe. When I was a kid, we found a Wells Fargo stage coach ditched on the ranch, along with a broken coach gun (Lincoln County) NM, presumably the result of a Comanche raid in Texas. It had clearly been there 100+ years.

With the exception of the leather straps and seats presumably being eaten by mice or other critters, it was basically in perfect, but weathered, condition.

My dad had it on display in Lincoln NM for a while, then sold it to Wells Fargo and it sits restored in the lobby of their bank in NYC.


29 posted on 01/15/2015 6:54:43 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I wonder if they’ll ship it back to me.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 6:57:44 AM PST by IronJack
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To: All

Cool story.

Btw, totally unrelated, but what ever happened with that time capsule they found and were gonna open? Remember it supposedly had an item of pewter made by Paul Revere and some documents. Anybody heard?


31 posted on 01/15/2015 7:00:30 AM PST by uncitizen (When's the last time you heard: "It's a free country"?)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Great story, thanks for posting


32 posted on 01/15/2015 7:00:40 AM PST by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

great story


33 posted on 01/15/2015 7:01:12 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Should be on Pawn Stars next week!


34 posted on 01/15/2015 7:02:32 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVzOk1rdUorQAki9XNyoA?p=wells+fargo+lobby+nyc+stage+coach&fr=yfp-t-901&fr2=piv-web


35 posted on 01/15/2015 7:02:33 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: CrazyIvan

“From my cold dead Hands”


36 posted on 01/15/2015 7:03:20 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
It is a MODEL 1882, which does NOT mean it was "manufactured in 1882." I highly doubt any wood-and-steel contraption would have survived in the elements for 120 years and still be in that shape.

But this is from the Washington Pest, so don't expect firearms literacy.

37 posted on 01/15/2015 7:04:11 AM PST by IronJack
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To: MaxMax

That tree it’s leaning against certainly hasn’t been there for a century. If it grew up around the rifle, the rifle probably would have been embedded in the tree.


38 posted on 01/15/2015 7:05:50 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: uncitizen
Paul Revere time capsule
39 posted on 01/15/2015 7:07:55 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: IronJack

It’s a model 1873.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 7:08:08 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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