Found a rifle on my place...

It was just laying in my pasture. Fairly certain its been run over, mowed over, disc'd and cow stompted a few hundred times. I think it is a Stevens falling block. Not a .22 though, as the bore is larger than that. The barrel is octagon for the first 8 or 9" changing to round for the remainder. When I first picked it up I thought it was an old hand brake lever...










Trade value $1,638.43...

Cool find

Wow! That is neat!

Does it shoot?

That's freakin awesome!! Would love to know the stories it could tell.

That is awesome!!!! Good find.

Oh wow, that is pretty cool.

Neat find.

Awesome find!!

That's an awesome find. I'd make a plaque for it and display it somewhere.

I had the $1638. But the 43 cents? Now you are just another scalper trying to take advantage.

That is a neat find

That's cool. Congrat's on an amazing find.

Very cool

Funny, I was concerned it was loaded. To check it out I ran a piece of bailing wire down the muzzle . The end of the wire became visible at the hammer... (actually, I guess it was visible at the block)

But I'll let you give it a test run BP.

Cool find!

Front sight is missing, I'll spot you the $0.43

Those are the kind of things that I find difficult to throw away... and difficult to find a perfect place to put it.

The bidding war has started! $0.50

I'm high bidder!

Dang neat find. Bet there is a story behind how it got there also. It appears the hammer was back on it also? I found a spent rimfire casing from the late 1800's that had been misfired. Then I guess taken out of the rifle and put back in the rifle and tried a second time. I could tell this by the 2 sets of crimps marks.

That is a crazy cool find! If that old rifle could talk, just imagine the stories it might have to tell. It would be really neat to know it's story, darn shame that it will go untold.

That's awesome! You need to let me come out and do some metal detecting to see what else we can find!

Cool find.

Just like new Put a 50 round Banana clip in there and hold down on the trigger and a Rat a Tat you go

Now you really have me thinking....

Really great find

Can only imagine all of the cool stuff that's out there buried right under the surface and we don't have a clue it is there

That is pretty neat. I was going to ask if it was loaded because it almost looks like the hammer is cocked, but you already answered that question.
Did Chuck Conners used to live on your place?

That would be great and it almost deserves it. Over the fireplace or something. Bet the history behind it would blow our minds. Sure it provided more than a meal or two along the way. And how does it just end up laying on the ground? Maybe leaned up against a wagon and forgotten about when they rolled forward...maybe something wild. I like it!

Great find!!! Let us know what you end up doing with it

Stories it could tell ?? Not much. "My owner was careless, lost me in this pasture"

I would do as MikeC suggested and make a plaque and hang it somewhere. Great piece of history.

Dang, that's cool! all we ever find are old glass bottles

Very cool!
Might me some human remains very nearby.

That rifle must have been left behind by some advanced civilization; maybe even aliens: none of my guns have a remote control!

It might be worth taking a metal detector out in that field when you have some time. No telling what else will turn up.

"How come he don't write?!"

(Very cool find.)

really cool find

Very cool, I'd run a metal detector around where you found it and see if there's anything else around.

little rem oil and she'll be good to go

Once in a lifetime find you have there

I love looking for old artifacts

Cool Find!

See, folks have been using Savage/Stevens for tomatoe stakes for over a century, it's not a new trend.


Sweet find!

You know how many Savage Owners just got Tomato faced

Cool Find to the OP by the way

That's pretty neat.

Cool!

Stevens Favorite,

very nice

could be 25 or 32 rimfire

MO

Or could be " My owner was riding across the prairie when a band of Comanche's that had left the reservation found him"

Lots of options

Neat

I love stuff like that. Neat.

Nice!

Thats what I was thinking as well, happened allot in early Tejas. By the description of the barrel, anyone have a clue what type rifle and or manufacture? It would seem possible with an octagon barrel changing to standard?

Cool find.

Photos like this is why I guesstimate the rifle to be a Stevens Falling Block. I'm no expert, but lots of similarities..

I must have missed where you posted the name, thanks., Compared to the OP's photos, that looks spot on! Do you know when those, or that model was produced?

That is a neat find. With that caliber it would not be a military round. Some one personal hunting / plinking round. Might send pictures to Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, or West Texas Museum in Canyon, or even Stevens. GL

Why they always gotta be Comanches? That's racist.

Probably some youngster got his butt whooped when he lost it. Awesome find!

That's a sweet find! Will be a conversation piece for years to come.

Awesome find!

I'd love to find something old like that.