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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The tape was placed there to cover up the “Cruz for 2016” carving.
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.
If it was an AK it would probably still work.
Lon Horuchi is sighting in a mother as we speak.
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.
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.
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“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.
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.
I wonder if they’ll ship it back to me.
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?
Great story, thanks for posting
great story
Should be on Pawn Stars next week!
“From my cold dead Hands”
But this is from the Washington Pest, so don't expect firearms literacy.
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.
It’s a model 1873.
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