This is right out of a Twilight Zone episode...
Ha! It is isn’t it. The one episode where the family is going cross country in the wagon in the 1800s and one of the kids is sick. And the father goes to look for water and somehow he is transported to the future and he finds a diner and tells the waitress about his son and she gives him penicillin, and he accidentally leaves his gun behind and they find out it’s a gun from the 1800s.
In a Twilight Zone episode the rifle would be an Ar-15 that was left in the desert 150 years ago.
First thing I thought.
Over The Rim.
Great episode. They don’t make TV like that anymore.
LOL That came to my mind. Clift Robertson in “A Hundred Yards Over The Rim”.
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.
exactly,....Cliff Robertson, “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” the episode...Cliff’s son becomes a famous doctor in due time.