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Thread: Found rifle - Story time

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    I suppose if you could get the scope off if you boiled the action and electrolysis the action you could have a wall hanger with a story

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    I wonder whether finding that is a trigger event. Ha ha ha ha
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbear View Post
    Still plenty of eels around the jetty?
    Heaps of them !!

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    Around 30 years ago a fella list a rifle around the Mt Cedric area of Rotoroa, had glassed his first chamois and took off to stalk it leaving his rifle behind. His initials were DM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    First DB.

    Now Double Brown.

    What’s next? Ranfurly?

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    @Dundee, how is your 50th birthday present going? Gone?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve338 View Post
    Around 30 years ago a fella list a rifle around the Mt Cedric area of Rotoroa, had glassed his first chamois and took off to stalk it leaving his rifle behind. His initials were DM

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    Bit more than 30 years ago I think if it’s the DM I’m know of.

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    Another found rifle. Just a few months ago. Stainless shortened (Tikka??) with pic rail and red dot. Obviously not tied on well enough to someone's raft.

    8 minutes in

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT368YORHE
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russian 22. View Post
    I suppose if you could get the scope off if you boiled the action and electrolysis the action you could have a wall hanger with a story
    Yeah, be neat - or encase in a resin block.

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    We found a .22 leaning against a tree up the whakatane River a few yrs ago.It had been there for years.

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    20 yrs ago a not so on it farm manager was presented with his disced up rifle by the tractor driver.
    He reckons, I wondered where that was.
    True story

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    Quote Originally Posted by woods223 View Post
    Bit more than 30 years ago I think if it’s the DM I’m know of.
    Could be closer to 35 yrs ago, he was a fit bugger. He did a day Walk from Coldwater hut up to hopeless hut then climbed both hopeless and Angelus peaks and out again the same day

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6.5 CRD View Post
    You should try and convince Broncos that’s a Vortex scope, they’ll give you a new one under the VIP warranty!
    Just...say...the...word

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    You should try and convince Broncos that’s a Vortex scope, they’ll give you a new one under the VIP warranty!
    That scope would still be clearer to look through than a new vortex

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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    Another found rifle. Just a few months ago. Stainless shortened (Tikka??) with pic rail and red dot. Obviously not tied on well enough to someone's raft.

    8 minutes in

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT368YORHE
    Hard to tell if they left it there?? Certainly gingerly touching it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    Hard to tell if they left it there?? Certainly gingerly touching it.
    Considering how smashed it is (trigger guard and recoil pad appear gone/broken), I suspect it's washed up there after being lost overboard.

 

 

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