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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against desert tree in Nevada
It still has its serial number, and a museum said it was made in 1882
Conservationists will preserve it in its present condition, and it will go on display at a national park
(CNN)If this rifle could talk.
In a gravelly voice, it may recite a yarn of weary settlers swaying on horses' backs in the parched, rocky Nevada wilderness. It may talk about riding in a saddle holster across neighboring Utah more than a decade before it became a state of the union.
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." Did they have to depart in a hurry -- running from danger?
Or did they not see it, as it stood neatly camouflaged against the arid trunk of the juniper tree?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/us/nevada-century-old-rifle-park/index.html
Egnever
(21,506 posts)CNN coverage of it is horrendous. The video at the link was cringeworthy.
I am growing ever more weary of bravado from a nation that ran scared for 6 years after 9-11
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,481 posts)Perhaps it's crime scene tape.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)to keep the stock from falling apart, apparently.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I saw the same pic with a caption that states they put the tape on to hold it together.
braddy
(3,585 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Good one! Laughing my ass off!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Green tea everywhere!
C Moon
(12,223 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)along with his account in general...
But to be fair, I'm amused by any white supremacist/prepper/off-the-grid/survivalist type who has the skill to manage a youtube account, among other things...That definitely isn't a skill they taught us in the boy scouts...
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)hunter
(38,338 posts)I'm picturing some guy stumbling around muttering, "...damn, where'd I leave my rifle???"
Brother Buzz
(36,481 posts)forgetting the cold heavy piece of iron he set down during the night.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,481 posts)and he made a grand day of it until sunset when the rifle turned up missing
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)in Brigadoon.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)blaze
(6,383 posts)Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
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bluedigger
(17,087 posts)http://www.archaeology.org/news/2901-150115-nevada-winchester-rifle
You can see the stock is badly weathered. It was good thinking to use the survey tape to stabilize it before recovery.