Let me get this straight: The assumption is that it was lost there in its day, and has been there ever since?
So if John Glenn had lost a Ming vase while out collecting moon-rocks, that would prove what exactly?
It simply proves that a gun of that age was found at that location.
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I guess it would prove John Glenn went to the moon.
I have my grandfather’s cheap old double barrel, made before 1900. He never came to Idaho in his life, and yet, his gun is right here.