Winchester 73 found by a tree

[Bigfoot]

I enjoyed this article. Makes you wonder what story the gun could tell.
http://www.winchesterguns.com/library/a ... asp?id=652

 

[highgrit]

That must be one slow growing tree. I'd like to count the rings on the tree. Still a neat story, but something doesn't smell right to me.

 

[Hook]

That must be one slow growing tree. I'd like to count the rings on the tree. Still a neat story, but something doesn't smell right to me.

It was a desert tree. They grow slow.

 

[greybeard]

a juniper tree.

 

[Dave]

It is interesting that the gun was empty. People didn't pack around empty guns in those days. Especially out there in the middle of nowhere. Why did he run out of shells? It would be interesting to take a metal detector to the area around that tree.

 

[LRTX1]

It is interesting that the gun was empty. People didn't pack around empty guns in those days. Especially out there in the middle of nowhere. Why did he run out of shells? It would be interesting to take a metal detector to the area around that tree.

I wouldn't pack around an empty gun neither. When it ran out, I'd put it down too. It would be neat to hear the story that gun could tell.

 

[oscar p]

Wow! That reminds me of a true story. When I was 11 yrs old,me and my pop paw were coon hunting one night. We had taken a large coon. On the way back to the boat we sat down to catch our breath. We both got up and walked off and left the gun leaning against a log. No one noticed till we had loaded the boat on the trailer and were getting the dogs out of the boat. We went back dozens of times looking for it. We coon and squirrel hunted that place years after that, no luck. I'm 46 now, and am willing to bet that 22 is still there.

 

[Dave]

Down where I elk hunt there is a pretty good size creek that empties into the Columbia. Someone found a 1820's era trade musket in the bottom of the creek. This is close enough to the ocean that there is 5 or 6 feet of tidal rise and fall in the river. Some Indian tip over his canoe? In that day a musket would have been a prized possession. I bet they dove into the creek a bunch searching for it.

 

[jltrent]

From the looks of it just put a little Kroil on it and it ready to go.

 

[wacocowboy]

The other day on Pawn Stars they had an old revolver that some one had found in the middle of a tree. I was pretty neat the tree had grown around the pistol and it was loaded.