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Very cool...........that doesn't look like a very high fence

I'd doubt it - it's cocked.

Can you run a rod down the barrel to see if it's still loaded?

Very Cool Find

That should Buff Right Out with no problem.









Very neat for sure.

I was actually trying to put a stalk on a real nice mule deer buck when I stumbled onto it. First shooter muley I've seen since season started first of November. It's at the ranch foreman's house right now so I'll check it out more thoroughly in a few days when I go back.

That’s a pretty cool find. The fact that it’s cocked raises lots of questions.

Just needs a little Kroil and 0000 steel wool. 😊

Cocked and with a badly bent lower tang. Did someone use it as a club or was the tang bent years after the stock rotted away? It would take a pretty good lick against something to bend it like that or someone driving over it. Lots of questions about that one for sure.

Best I've found is an old spur in similar condition.

I have always wished old guns , cars and trucks , but most of all old farm houses and barns could tell us their stories. mam oh man thats a very cool and curious find !!!

The gun that really shot Kennedy.

Cody, Wyoming has an entire museum dedicated to dug up guns. Cool place to visit.

Neat find, JG.

Near the gun site, found numerous shrouds of painted pottery, what looks like remnants of a Model A Ford (both doors and engine covers, various pieces, etc) an old spoon, and this......

WRA CO 1906 30 G
The headstamp means 30 Cal Government 1906, what we all call 30-06 now of course. My info says WRA marked them that way up through the ~1920s. Very unique to say the least.

Neat find ! Thanks for posting.
Reminds me of that '73 Winchester they found leaning on a bush in Utah a few years ago.

https://www.winchesterguns.com/news/articles/lost-model-1873-visit-winchester-repeating-arms.html

My Dad grew up in Vegas. Him and some pals were out goofing off in the desert one day and they found an old SxS coach gun with the wood rotted away.

His buddy cleaned it up and fired it!

I'd like to hear what this one had to say:

absolutely a cool story and thread..
I was afraid to going to be a story about the creedmoor coming out of the closet...

Great find.

I bought this rifle about 8 years ago. It is a Sedgley Sporter 30/06 made in the 1920s. I found out from the previous owner that it came out of Slana and was the primary rifle of Capt. William Boyden. This has been verified by Kirk Ellis who was there. Why that is interesting is that Boyden was an old time freighter and hunting guide from the 20s to the 1950s when he retired and sold his piece to the Ellises at Devil's Mountain Lodge. He would do huge expedition type hunts in the 1920s and took some of the wealthiest hunters in the world. He would pick up clients up the White River from the Dicksons who would start them near Burwash landing. The price of a hunt was between 4000 and 5000 dollars. This is north of 200,000 if you figure in for inflation. The rifle went to Africa and from other stories handled a charge from a large Bear on Bear Lake in the Southern Wrangells next to McColl Ridge. The Rifle also worked for a shift on a man killing Bear up in the upper White River Valley. I always wonder how many different things it encountered.

Good stuff kaboku.