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132-year-old rifle found leaning against tree in Nevada 'where it was left'
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Posted on 01/16/2015 12:31:29 PM PST by Phillyred
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:31:29 PM PST
by
Phillyred
To: Phillyred
Some guy out in the boonies.. Takes a leak. Bear jumps him.. Century later..
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:33:36 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Why didn’t the bear take the gun?
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:44:32 PM PST
by
Procyon
(Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
To: Phillyred
No storm blew it over in 130 years? That defies logic.
Obviously, there was a time-traveling gun fight involved somehow. Like on Dr. Who or Supernatural.
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:47:14 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: NormsRevenge
132 yrs,
in the elements,,
should have been completely destroyed.
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:48:11 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
To: Phillyred
That rifle hasn’t been leaning against that tree for 100 years. Maybe out in the elements like that for 40 or so, possibly less.
To: Phillyred
There is no evidence that this rifle has sat there for 132 years. It may have been manufactured in 1882, but that doesn't mean it was left by the tree then.
With all the hullabaloo over this, you'd think they'd found the Lost Dutchman. It's a rusty old rifle, for cripes' sake!
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:53:29 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: dead
Captain Harkness may have passed through there searching for renegade aliens or their technology and left it there figuring to pick it up later.
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:54:07 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: dead
I saw a Twilight Zone like that over the holidays.
To: Big Red Badger; The KG9 Kid
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:55:35 PM PST
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Phillyred
I assume the person who found the rifle was immediately arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm in a national park.
To: Phillyred
The Holder Just-us Department is starting an investigation to track down the owner and charge him with failure to secure a fire arm with a trigger lock.
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posted on
01/16/2015 12:59:32 PM PST
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: The KG9 Kid
Right where Dingy Harry left it.
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:00:00 PM PST
by
shove_it
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
To: SoothingDave
Oh yeah! The wagon train guy went over the hill and came back with the medicine to save the dying child!
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:00:30 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: The KG9 Kid
It doesn,t look like the tree had time to grow around it. No one has yet wondered if a round was chambered.
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:02:30 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Phillyred
If FBI agents can leave their pistols in the loo while taking a leak, why can’t an old pioneer leave his Winchester against a tree?
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:03:24 PM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: IronJack
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:03:31 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: dead
To: dead
No storm blew it over in 130 years? That defies logic. Looking at the picture, the barrel of the gun is resting in the V of the trees branches. It would have taken a tornado to topple it.
Sort of interesting to contemplate the story and imagine how it got there.
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:08:06 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: Flick Lives; dead
I doubt that it was there for 132 years, it might have been left there 10 years ago
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posted on
01/16/2015 1:09:22 PM PST
by
GeronL
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