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Mystery deepens: Who left 130-year-old rifle in NV desert?
Fox News ^ | 7/18/15 | Matt Finn

Posted on 07/20/2015 11:02:11 AM PDT by Kartographer

A 130-year-old rifle found in the Nevada desert last year is fully loaded with mystery—and some of the questions surrounding it might never be answered.

The Winchester 1873 rifle was discovered in the Great Basin National Park leaning against a juniper tree in November. But the strange discovery has triggered more questions than answers.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1873; 1882; banglist; godsgravesglyphs; greatbasin; greatbasinnp; guns; history; model1873; nationalpark; nevada; park; rifle; rifles; treasure; winchester; winchester1873; winchesterrifle
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To: Jamestown1630

LOL That came to my mind. Clift Robertson in “A Hundred Yards Over The Rim”.


21 posted on 07/20/2015 11:19:14 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: DBrow

From the first account, I think the tree had grown partially around it. They were pretty confident it had been there the entire time.


22 posted on 07/20/2015 11:20:05 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Kartographer
Who left 130-year-old rifle in NV desert?

Aliens.

23 posted on 07/20/2015 11:21:04 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: Kartographer

Great Basin NP, near Ely is way out there. Unattended objects may not be discovered. The ranger there gave us a private tour since we were the only visitors.

The highway there can have no vehicles for hours. We pulled over to relieve ourselves openly without privacy concerns.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 11:21:15 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Jamestown1630

Your right, it is amazing how it still holds today. Rod Steiger was way ahead of his time. Moral of those stories never changes thru time.


25 posted on 07/20/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Kartographer

I’ve been saying this since it was first found.... The rifle was probably placed against the tree in relatively modern times. If it had been leaning against the tree for 100+ years there would have been substantial interaction with the bark growth and there is no trace of that. My theory is that the rifle was found by someone in a more likely place, like at the bottom of a cliff or down a ravine where it was first dropped. Someone (who doesn’t know much about firearms) picked it up, possibly carried it some distance, placed it against the tree, and continued on their way — probably within the five years preceding its discovery.


26 posted on 07/20/2015 11:22:29 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: humblegunner


Or maybe a time traveler?


27 posted on 07/20/2015 11:24:28 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Patriot Babe

There were so many great episodes, it’s impossible to choose a favorite. But I like ‘The Night of the Meek’ with Art Carney; and ‘Little Girl Lost’ with its great line, “Bill’s coming over; he’s a physicist”.

-JT


28 posted on 07/20/2015 11:26:37 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Cliff Robertson had come and gone in time before that rifle so rule him out.

Captain Jack Harkness might have been dealing with an alien threat in the old west, got blasted to bits or something and left it behind.


29 posted on 07/20/2015 11:28:42 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Kartographer

Well the owner could be the following:

1) Alien
2) Someone who is currently 130 years old
3) A Time Traveler
4) Someone traveling on a horse and buggy
5) Someone who had a very bad boating accident


30 posted on 07/20/2015 11:29:56 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Jamestown1630

The one that gives me the creeps is The Mask, where the father had his family wear the mask until midnight. They were a greedy bunch. Also the one with Ida Lupino an aged starlet, her desire was so strong to return to her glorious Hollywood years that she went back but in the film.

Interesting Ida Lupino also directed The Mask.

My all time favorite - THE OBSOLETE MAN about the future of a totalitarian society


31 posted on 07/20/2015 11:34:24 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Patriot Babe

Or one 130 year old alien time traveler crossing the West in a horse-drawn boat.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.


32 posted on 07/20/2015 11:36:00 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: SpinnerWebb

ROFL Awesome!


33 posted on 07/20/2015 11:39:31 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Kartographer

One would think if the rifle were left against the juniper tree many decades ago, the tree would grow around it and encase it.


34 posted on 07/20/2015 11:46:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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To: Kartographer

Good one. Maybe Marty McFly and Doc Brown went back in time, bought the rifle and left it there as a practical joke to see how people would react in the future when it was found.


35 posted on 07/20/2015 11:48:01 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Patriot Babe

Was it 130 yrs old when they left it there?


36 posted on 07/20/2015 11:49:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kartographer

Why does it matter so much? So someone left a rifle against a tree. I’m aure there are more laying around.


37 posted on 07/20/2015 11:49:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: MeganC
In a Twilight Zone episode the rifle would be an Ar-15 that was left in the desert 150 years ago.

Imagine that AR-15 suddenly appearing with a bucket full of loaded magazines 150 years ago on a Civil War battlefield...

"Gonna postpone that meeting at Appomattox..."

38 posted on 07/20/2015 11:50:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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To: ScottinVA

Have they checked the tree to see if the owner may be encased in it?


39 posted on 07/20/2015 11:56:24 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Kartographer

Nobody so far has mentioned Howard Hughes.


40 posted on 07/20/2015 11:59:14 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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