Posted on 04/11/2014 7:50:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
That rifle looked more like a Moisin Nagan to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosin%E2%80%93Nagant.
Trees, they are taking our stuff.
Never lean you gun on a tree or let it hold your wallet.
Right, and if you cut the top off, it will re-grow from a lower nodule. If trees grew up like grass, lower limbs would move up as the trunk grew; trees with crotches would have their crotches ‘move up,’ but they don’t.
I grew up in NorthCentral Washington on an apple ranch. Sure miss Wash., I think, as I’ve been living in CA for 40 years. But Wash. politics seem pretty bad and approaching the ##$$%% of CA.
“That rifle looked more like a Moisin Nagant”
It is a Carcano, the magazine is a dead giveaway. The magazine on a Mosin is a lot thinner.
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It is a Carcano, the magazine is a dead giveaway. The magazine on a Mosin is a lot thinner.
The gap between the trigger guard and the fixed magazine doesn't look like either one, and I don't see where the bolt turns down. I think it is some flavor of Mannlicher, or other straight pull rifle. I you go to the large version of this photo it looks like the rifle on far left, right down to screws on the magazine.
Didn`t notice the guard to magazine gap, just thought the tree had grown over there, good catch.
That's what I was thinking.
I have a Moisin and while its a relic from a bygone era, it`s got a clean bore, (some fire honing did the trick), and it still shoots very well. Got to get it scoped though, those open sites stink on ice!
But the tree in the photo only appears to be about ten years old. How about this. A seedling grows through a 1" hole. The trunk expands to 1". As the bark continues to grow, the tree is a hair wider below the hole in the helmet than above. Slowly, at a glacial pace, the helmet "slides" up the tree.
But helmet would have to “slide” up over branches.
No evidence, but maybe someone was there 10-15 years ago (cut the tree and count rings), and hung some of these helmets on small trees so they would not be lost in the forest floor. Or maybe kids goofing off.
I do know that there are helmets stuck part way up the trees.
That's true.
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