Wish this gun could talk

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/15/132-year-old-winchester-rifle-found-propped-under-desert-tree/

So many stories are possible. It’s great to imagine how this rifle came to be left.

A man doesn’t just leave his rifle behind. Especially in that day and age. I’m guessing something sinister went down, and someone pried it from his cold, dead hands.

I read about this earlier today. Wouldn’t it be cool to know the stories. Could you imagine the person who found it there? How cool would that be.

Dave

Saw the story on FB. imagine how many people walked past it and never noticed it. I’m guessing something bad happened to the owner. That wouldn’t have been left behind on accident

I sent a link to this article to my sister, who is a forensic archaeologist. Her comment was that that the rifle certainly hadn’t been sitting out for 133 years. Probably less than half that. Wood and metal were in way too good of condition. Her guess was 1950s or 60s.

My guess would be someone in a hunting group left it and it was one of those, “I thought you had it. No, I thougth you had it.” things where they discovered hours and miles later that someone didn’t put the rifle back in the scabbard. They went back and coudn’t find it.

Grouse

That was my guess too.