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Experts are still baffled by 132-year-old rifle found leaning against a tree in the Nevada
Daily Mail ^ | 7/20/15 | Dailymail.com Reporter

Posted on 07/20/2015 11:15:44 AM PDT by Kartographer

A 132-year-old rifle discovered on a remote rocky outcrop in the heart of the Grand Basin National Park in Nevada is still a mystery as researchers try to find more answers.

The Winchester rifle, which was found unloaded in November, has been shipped to the Cody Firearms Museum in Wyoming where it is temporarily on display among 7,000 other guns.

Museum workers said there are no records showing who owned the rifle and that its lifter was removed making it able to only fire a single shot at once, according to Fox News.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Why was it turned into a single shot??


After the gun was carefully collected and shipped to the museum, its weathered wood was stabilized with an alcohol solution before it was X-Rayed


1 posted on 07/20/2015 11:15:44 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Talisker; Cowboy Bob; DBrow; GrandJediMasterYoda; PATRIOT1876; oblomov; Darksheare; ...

Ping


2 posted on 07/20/2015 11:17:50 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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You need to call in experts to figure out why an old gun was found leaning against a tree? Is this truly important news?
3 posted on 07/20/2015 11:18:25 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Kartographer


4 posted on 07/20/2015 11:19:26 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Major Matt Mason; Kartographer

Why, someone could have been killed if it got angry!
/ kidding.


5 posted on 07/20/2015 11:20:14 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Kartographer

What the heck is a “lifter?” Is that a legitimate term or just more profound ignorance on the part of the author?


6 posted on 07/20/2015 11:20:51 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Major Matt Mason

Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. I have to wonder if it bothers you so much why would you read the post?


7 posted on 07/20/2015 11:21:34 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: IronJack

Part to go from tube mag to chamber, I assume.


8 posted on 07/20/2015 11:22:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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9 posted on 07/20/2015 11:22:33 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Kartographer

I am reminded of the scene in the movie “Jeremiah Johnson”, where he finds the old mountain man frozen in the snow, the man’s will written out on a piece of bark, willing his rifle to whoever found his remains.


10 posted on 07/20/2015 11:23:51 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Kartographer

Too bad Win records don’t ‘splain initial destination.


11 posted on 07/20/2015 11:24:17 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Darksheare

Yeah did the rifle kill its owner and lean itself up against the tree?


12 posted on 07/20/2015 11:26:10 AM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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To: corlorde

Yep, lever actions are assualt rifles.


13 posted on 07/20/2015 11:27:08 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and kilt the bear that kilt me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerely, Hatchet Jack.
14 posted on 07/20/2015 11:28:26 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: corlorde

LOL.
We could write some horrible satire piece using the hoplophobe lexicon and terminology to make this rifle a time traveling serial killer that retired at that tree to live out its final days in peace.

Likely the owner is dead somewhere nearby, but very little trace is left to be found, if ever.


15 posted on 07/20/2015 11:29:47 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: IronJack
The rifle in question has a tubular magazine located under the barrel, as do many other lever action, slide action and semiautomatic firearms. Partially working the action allows a spring in the tubular magazine to push a cartridge back onto the lifter. Continuing to work the action allows the lifter to lift the cartridge up in line with the barrel so it can be pushed into the chamber.

So far as I know, it's a legitimate term, although there may be others.

16 posted on 07/20/2015 11:29:54 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the and breadth of "ignorance. individual be those who don't.)
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To: corlorde

Maybe the tree killed someone. I mean if Obama had a son I would imagine he would be as smart as a tree and just as dense.


17 posted on 07/20/2015 11:35:28 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Cliff Robertsons Rifle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hundred_Yards_Over_the_Rim

Twilight Zone


18 posted on 07/20/2015 11:37:56 AM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns, and kneeling at the feet of Mary)
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To: Kartographer; corlorde

“Look under my roots you filthy meatbags!” -tree.
I did write a short story about some ivy that kills a mailman after snapping.


19 posted on 07/20/2015 11:38:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Live out it’s days in peace? I think not.

It is the avatar that the left has been searching for since 1963. Their perverted version of the Grail. A myth, the rifle with the power to cloud mens minds, appearing only when the truly deranged beyond redemption ascend to power.

It has waited patiently, quietly, weathering through heat and cold, waiting....now comes its time.

The search is over...coming October 2016

Boolits!!!!

A Disney Pixar Production


20 posted on 07/20/2015 11:40:43 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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