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Gil,
I will pay $50 and take that P-38 off the shop owner's hands.
This reminds me of a story from my old New Hampshire deer camp, Kilkenny Lodge, just East of Round Mountain and North of Berlin, NH.
I first went to deer camp in 1975. It was the rustic and outback experience one would picture of the "North Woods" of New England. We had about one million acres of the White Mountain National Forest to hunt the few NH deer. On my first day at the lodge, I saw a M98K Mauser over the fireplace. The rilfe was found 10 years before leaning against a tree on Deer Mountain by a club member. The rifle had been in the woods for a decade or so and was fully loaded; chamber and magazine. The guys unloaded the rusty rifle and then made it the center piece of the camp.
We often wondered if a hunter got lost and freaked out and left the Mauser behind or if the guy dropped dead nearby and the coyotes cleaned up his remains. The woods are very big up there north of Berlin and there are many tales of lost hunters. Our camp may have the deer rifle of one of the lost.....
Adam
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Adam Helmer
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