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Post by Lord Newport on Sept 7, 2023 2:28:23 GMT
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Post by durinnmcfurren on Sept 7, 2023 2:31:12 GMT
Very cool find!
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Post by mrstabby on Sept 7, 2023 13:12:08 GMT
When such things turn up, I always wonder about the owner. How the items came to be there, why were they never retrieved, not found for 100s of years or, in this case, almost 2 millennia. There was a Winchester Model 1873 that was found leaning against a tree in the middle of the desert. Who was the person leaving a gun in the middle of nowhere and why. Every find belonged to someone, and we know nothing about them. Maybe it wasn't rebels but someone thinking "I'll bury those here for someone in 1900 years to find" Seriously though, that's a really unique find with everything still relatively intact, especially the leather doesn't last very long normally. Someone used up a few leprechauns worth of luck to find this, and we were lucky that the finder wasn't some greedy bastard secretly pawning them off to soem rich collector.
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Post by eastman on Sept 7, 2023 18:19:03 GMT
the rifle left against the tree hadn't been there all that long. There is a museum in Cody WY dedicated to "dug up" guns. It doesn't take many years for the tree to start to engulf the rifle. Some of the older Winchester rifles were notorious for breaking inner action parts rendering the rifles useless. The annoyed owners either smashed them in anger or just abandoned them. The "tree rifle" was probably found in a barn somewhere and left there within a year of when it was found. (According to the curator of the dug up guns museum)
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