Today, we'll talk about this very rifle hide and seek. In November 2014 the first archaeological survey, researchers juniper tree next to Great Basin National Park in the United States found a rusty old rifle bar. It is reported that this is a fabrication in 1882 Winchester rifle, will become a permanent exhibit of the Great Basin National Park.
When newly discovered, it does not put the shotgun shells, butt section has been split, but still intact, the barrel has been corroded. Because Barrel faintly visible serial number, an expert can determine this gun manufactured in 1882.
Commentary director Nichole Andler Great Basin National Park, said they did not know .44-40 caliber shotgun is when this occurs there, perhaps from the 19th century already there. Nichole also told us that the region since ancient times, mining, ranching and hunting history, this lever rifle was also the western border of the United States the most widely used gun.
Currently, researchers are looking at the history of literature, in the end to see who is the owner of the gun, why would it against a tree.
And from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody Firearms Museum, former curator Herbert Houze argued that this 1873 Winchester rifle models are expensive, can not casually placed in the tree, maybe a gun owner is not found, Of course, it can not say what the story hidden behind.
In 1880, this gun can be sold for 35-50 $, if preserved, to now be able to sell at least 15,000 $. After seeing the photos Houze shotgun think he probably felt the gun and environment blend, no wonder the gun owner can not be found.
The researchers said: "A lot of people will go through this next to the gun, but one million individuals in perhaps only one person can see it."
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