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132-year-old Winchester rifle found

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/15...r-desert-tree/

Quote:

The story of how it got there may never be known, but a rusting 132-year-old Winchester rifle -- known in U.S. lore as "the gun that won the West" -- was recently found resting against a juniper tree in a Nevada national park.

The gun, its stock split, gray and faded like driftwood, and its steel barrel rusted brown, blended in perfectly against the tree in a remote part of the Great Basin National Park until a National Parks Service employee spotted it.

Pretty cool....no matter how it happened.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gatorade (Post 99092)

I vote leave it.

So that some POS can steal it?

Send it to the Smithsonian.

I have an acquaintance that found a Colt SA under a bush in NM . Don't remember the age but it was a great find . He took it a restorer and kept . He even shoots Once a year a cowboy shoot . Had pics but I lost them when my last PC went South .