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132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against tree

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132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against tree

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Title: 132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against desert tree in Nevada
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Great Basin National Park workers found the Winchester Model 1873 propped against a tree in the desert in November.

Who knows how many years the rifle stood there, after someone left behind the model called "the gun that won the West."
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I'd like to think that rifle was a loyal companion to an old settler, who laid down there to sleep and didn't wake up. No one left a rifle by accident.
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My theory:

Someone had too much drinking late at night, got up to the call of nature taking their trusty rifle with them. Leaned the rifle up against a tree to do his business and promptly forgot about it. Come morning he couldn't find it anywhere as it was so well hidden against the tree...
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Both theories are sound ones.
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I think Chuck left that there... :wink:
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carmen fovozzo wrote:I think Chuck left that there... :wink:
He'd be about the right age, according to a certain forum profile... :mrgreen:
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JustaShooter wrote:
carmen fovozzo wrote:I think Chuck left that there... :wink:
He'd be about the right age, according to a certain forum profile... :mrgreen:
:oops:

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I bet it's loaded.
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I have to say though there was a lot left for it being there so long... That's a testament to the craftsmanship.
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Let my aim be true and my hand faster
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Value?
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Re: 132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against tree

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DON'T MOVE IT ! Leave it alone, they're probably competing with Gaston's plastic wonder for the durability record.
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