Posted on 07/20/2015 11:02:11 AM PDT by Kartographer
Things grow very, very slowly in the desert.
ROFL
Ok who is Rod Storage?
They sure do. I've been hiking deserts in Southern California, Nevada and all over the Great Basin for nearly 40 years. That's how I've learned when I see a rock creating a dent in the side of a tree that it has leaning on, I know it has been there for thirty or forty years or more. Sometimes you can pry the rock out and count the bark layers/rings.
Ok, this might take a minute to explain. (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music now.) When I wrote that post I knew what I was talking about,.....but I don’t anymore. Evidently, I had read an in depth analytical description of that rifle in a post, but apparently that post/comment wasn’t here on this thread. I guess I wandered off to read more about the find, starting at the sourced site. I may have actually gone into the future, I am not sure anymore. Anyway, there in the future I read a comment about a lower barrel having been removed from this particular Winchester. There it was explained that that lower “tube” was used for rod storage (not cartridge). I rushed back here to expand on what I thought might be a theme, not thinking that the post about “Rod Storage” hadn’t yet been written (in the present, which is now the recent past). Where that exact post/comment that I read (and mistakenly thought I’d read here) actually exists may forever remain a mystery. It may not exist yet. Could turn up tomorrow. Who knows.
Little Girl Lost scared at wee wee out of me when I first watched it as a kid.
Though we watched the TZ routinely in the early 1960s, I can’t remember if I actually saw that episode as a kid. But I’ve seen it many times as an adult, and I love the ‘space-agey’ and ‘new physics’ aspects of it - and all of the ‘mid-century-modern’ production values. (And I do love the idea that ‘Bill, as Physicist’ could solve this conundrum - it seemed to speak succinctly to the American, scientific ‘Zeitgeist’ of its time ;-)
The Twilight Zone was one of the greatest television series ever produced - perhaps THE greatest.
RIP, R. S.
-JT
See, if we had had gun registration in the territories, we wouldn’t be in this quandary now.
Handy, by any chance is your real name ‘John Titor’?
:-)
-JT
exactly,....Cliff Robertson, “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” the episode...Cliff’s son becomes a famous doctor in due time.
I don’t know yet.
LOL!
wait a minute...horse drawn boats went out of fashion years ago.
back to the future..
Exactly!
Watching “The Night of the Meek” is one of my Christmas traditions.
After TEOTWAWKI, that’s gonna be a hell of a mine for all kinds of useful materials.
Ok, after two days in the desert sun, I have re-found my “Rod Storage” reference. It was in another thread. Kind of like a mirage, or a mind meld.
To: SolidRedState
In the xray it shows a rear tube feed with a cartridge still in the tube in the stock.
That is not a feed into the tube. Some had cleaning rod storage in the stock. Some would use that space to store extra ammo.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/shooting-history-winchester-1873-old-gun-review/
34 posted on July 20, 2015 at 2:58:11 PM EDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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I’m totally ignorant about this stuff, so forgive me; but can they tell how old the cartridge is; and how can they tell?
One of my first questions was ‘is it loaded?’; and though the original article suggested that it was, I saw nothing in the article itself regarding that issue..
-JT
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