I wonder how many people that rifle killed while it was left unattended all this time?
Seriously though, that metal is in remarkable condition compared to the wood. By the metal I’d say it had been out there 6 months. The wood looks like its been there 30 years or more.
I wonder how many people that rifle killed while it was left unattended all this time?
Not that I claim expert status....but I’m more likely to think it was dropped there within the past fifty years.
Course, this would lead onto a good four-star movie script...”The Tale of the Winchester”. Maybe some drunk cowboy....maybe a deal gone bad...maybe some wife who shot her husband and ditched the gun.
“I wonder how many people that rifle killed while it was left unattended all this time?”
I can’t figure out why the rifle didn’t get up chase those guys around the forest...it has a mind of it’s own, according the the MSM.
Maybe. When I was a kid, we found a Wells Fargo stage coach ditched on the ranch, along with a broken coach gun (Lincoln County) NM, presumably the result of a Comanche raid in Texas. It had clearly been there 100+ years.
With the exception of the leather straps and seats presumably being eaten by mice or other critters, it was basically in perfect, but weathered, condition.
My dad had it on display in Lincoln NM for a while, then sold it to Wells Fargo and it sits restored in the lobby of their bank in NYC.