132-year-old rifle found leaning against tree in Nevada 'where it was left'

Telegraph ^

[NormsRevenge]

Some guy out in the boonies.. Takes a leak. Bear jumps him.. Century later..

[Procyon]

Why didn’t the bear take the gun?

[dead]

No storm blew it over in 130 years? That defies logic.

Obviously, there was a time-traveling gun fight involved somehow. Like on Dr. Who or Supernatural.

[Big Red Badger]

132 yrs,

in the elements,,

should have been completely destroyed.

[The KG9 Kid]

That rifle hasn’t been leaning against that tree for 100 years. Maybe out in the elements like that for 40 or so, possibly less.

[IronJack]

There is no evidence that this rifle has sat there for 132 years. It may have been manufactured in 1882, but that doesn't mean it was left by the tree then.

With all the hullabaloo over this, you'd think they'd found the Lost Dutchman. It's a rusty old rifle, for cripes' sake!

[wally_bert]

Captain Harkness may have passed through there searching for renegade aliens or their technology and left it there figuring to pick it up later.

[SoothingDave]

I saw a Twilight Zone like that over the holidays.

[Squantos]

Agree.....

[SoothingDave]

I assume the person who found the rifle was immediately arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm in a national park.

[dblshot]

The Holder Just-us Department is starting an investigation to track down the owner and charge him with failure to secure a fire arm with a trigger lock.

[shove_it]

Right where Dingy Harry left it.

[dead]

Oh yeah! The wagon train guy went over the hill and came back with the medicine to save the dying child!

[Paladin2]

It doesn,t look like the tree had time to grow around it. No one has yet wondered if a round was chambered.

[Drango]

If FBI agents can leave their pistols in the loo while taking a leak, why can’t an old pioneer leave his Winchester against a tree?

[Paladin2]

How old is the tree?

[SoothingDave]

That’s it!

[Flick Lives]

No storm blew it over in 130 years? That defies logic.

Looking at the picture, the barrel of the gun is resting in the V of the trees branches. It would have taken a tornado to topple it.

Sort of interesting to contemplate the story and imagine how it got there.

[GeronL]

I doubt that it was there for 132 years, it might have been left there 10 years ago