Leaning up against a tree...wow.

I remember the story when they first found this.

Guy prolly got eaten by a bear. Couldn't get to his rifle in time.

Bang wrote:I remember the story when they first found this.

Which one of you left your Winchester in the National Park?

"The rifle on display has been exhibited at gun shows and at the Buffalo Bill center for a summer. There, officials did an X-ray, found a bullet in the stock and removed it."

I wonder if they mean it was embedded in the stock as, it had been struck by a bullet, or if was simply stored in the stock's cavity?
Also I'd love to see a picture of the actual point on contact on the tree, it seems that a century or so of wind would create a wear mark on both the tree and the gun.

That would indeed be quite a story if there was a bullet imbedded in the stock! I suspect it was a spare round that was kept in the storage cavity of the buttstock. But it could also be journalistic incompetence about firearms rearing it’s ugly head again; there likely should have been several bullets in the receiver and tube-fed magazine.

Glad it was found and that it's now in the national park museum. I visited the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody years ago, it also has a firearms collection.

I remember when it was found as well but now you know where to view it.
One would think the tree trunk we would have grown around it after that many years.

‘Twas a Librul tree.

Bullitt68 wrote: Wed May 29, 2019 10:19 pm I remember when it was found as well but now you know where to view it.
One would think the tree trunk we would have grown around it after that many years.

That's what I thought at first, then I thought with a very slow rate
of growth and minor movement of the tree in the wind it just might
stay on the surface.
But looking at the two pictures of the tree from this page :
https://www.ksl.com/article/46560157/13 ... s-new-home
it looks to me as if the rifle was wedged between two stems of the
tree, it actually looks as if they might have split the tree apart to retrieve
the rifle, as the two trunks seem to be further apart in the picture where they're are holding the rifle with the butt stock taped together.
Also I think I see an indentation on the right stem, it appears lighter in color.

I think your right.. I've seen many a wire get embedded in trees but they were tightened to it.

Bullitt68 wrote:Guy prolly got eaten by a bear. Couldn't get to his rifle in time.

No bears over there. Mountain lion. Maybe a mööse.

khlavkalash wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 3:23 am

Bullitt68 wrote:Guy prolly got eaten by a bear. Couldn't get to his rifle in time.

No bears over there. Mountain lion. Maybe a mööse.

More likely Rod Serling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hundred ... er_the_Rim

I thought of this episode when I first read this story, it obliviously made quite a impression on my eleven year old mind.

geno wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 1:36 pm

khlavkalash wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 3:23 am

Bullitt68 wrote:Guy prolly got eaten by a bear. Couldn't get to his rifle in time.

No bears over there. Mountain lion. Maybe a mööse.

More likely Rod Serling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hundred ... er_the_Rim

I thought of this episode when I first read this story, it obliviously made quite a impression on my eleven year old mind.

Cool story. I don't remember that one.