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

[kitchen]

After all, .22 was almost 50 cents for a box of 50!

To come up with the money, you would have to scour the roadside for miles to find enough 2¢ deposit bottles and then pack them to a store that would accept them.

[Sequoyah101]

Yes. My sis and I would walk to town and usually gather enough bottles for a Popsicle or a soda or even a soda and a candy bar. We knew exactly how much the tax was and there the break points were for the extra penny tax. To avoid that extra penny tax we would make our purchases separately.

So long ago and I think better days than these. We thought we were well off because we were.

[Osage Orange]

Great scene...great movie.

[MileHi]

Sounds about right. Bet the kid waited a long time to get another.

[Alas Babylon!]

I don't think he was criticizing you, Kart, just the news media who need to write stories about “scary guns”.

[Alas Babylon!]

Lord hope he be a white man.

Isn't that what Jesse Jackson prays when he hears footsteps behind him on the streets at night?

[Rebelbase]

" Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?"

[Lee'sGhost]

Dude. Anybody here who reads that had can’t tell it’s a joke without being told it’s a joke...shouldn’t be here.

Just saying. Leave the tag off. If somebody whines about your comment you know they don’t have enough IQ to matter.

[Darksheare]

You’d be surprised.. Well, actually, looking at current events and news- we wouldn’t be surprised at humorless types not getting it..
Lol.

[Lee'sGhost]

I understand what you are saying. I go back to what I said...if they don’t get it...wave goodbye. They are missing a card or two.

[Darksheare]

I know.
But I am fated to find the humorless types, and they will usually spend days on end harping about it.
*chuckle*

Remember the “flying” SUV’s?
Every article about an SUV accident stated that the vehicle was flying.
So a few of us started cracking wise about the sentient SUV’s holding passengers hostage and such.

You should have seen the idiots then..

[Lee'sGhost]

That would indeed be entertaining.

[SunkenCiv]

A bit of an update (with the usual YT production values; at least mixup98 is a gun guy).

Winchester 1873 Rifle Found In Nevada - What Happened To It?" [YouTube posted by mixup98]

[Rebelbase]

"The wood is rotten and the barrel is rusty. I'll give you fifty bucks."

[Big Red Badger]

Nice Work,

[central_va]

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

[ladyjane]

Remember the “flying” SUV’s?

Remember when Obama first got elected and there were many articles about bullets 'flying' off the shelves.

I'm wondering if the rifle was put there by a widow who inherited the gun, didn't know what to do with it, was afraid to turn it into the police.