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After 19 yrs in the house.
Earlier this year I had undertaken a retrofit of a new security camera setup at the house. Required a hole here or there. One hole in the living room for an access panel, fishing wires, ect.
So the wife & I are sitting relaxing one evening about 1030pm. She'd been super chatty all evening. Talking about things most guys let go in one out the other. Something came over me. I grabbed a drill & proceeded to drill a 5/8" hole in the needed location right in the ceiling. I see something green in the hole. Not wanting an eye full of insulation I dismissed it.
There, now there's a hole there, I said. Yep, there is indeed a hole there, my wife replies. Eyebrow barely raised, probably not really even surprised after many years of being married to the craziness that is me. The rest of the night was fairly quiet, peaceful, & enjoyable.
Fast forward 2 days, I'm running cables in the attic. I'm moving insulation(4 layers of different junk) and I see a glimpse of something green. I peel back a stapled in chunk of old tar paper backed insulation to reveal Rem....holy sheeee....honey, I found something....out comes a rifle length box in Remington green & printed as such. I latch on to the stock of a Winchester model 290, pulled it out of the box, checked it's clear & hand it down to the giddy wife. BUT wait, seriously? There is another rifle stuffed in the box, I pull out a 788 in 22-250, clear, hand it to her & climb out with the box they were in. The box turned out to match the 788, it was in rough shape, but it had protected them reasonably well for at least 19-40yrs.
They both appear to have been fired little. Looks like a mouse had it's way dribbling what is now surface rust in a few spots on the barrels, with the 22lr taking the worst of it. We tossed the box after a pic due to the old mouse damage. I've put poison bait up there since I've owned the place so it's gotta be pretty old damage.
Now I'm wondering what else might be up there. Seriously considering removing all the insulation.
Looks like they were both dated around 76-77.
What are the odds of drilling that hole right where the box was laying?
Earlier this year I had undertaken a retrofit of a new security camera setup at the house. Required a hole here or there. One hole in the living room for an access panel, fishing wires, ect.
So the wife & I are sitting relaxing one evening about 1030pm. She'd been super chatty all evening. Talking about things most guys let go in one out the other. Something came over me. I grabbed a drill & proceeded to drill a 5/8" hole in the needed location right in the ceiling. I see something green in the hole. Not wanting an eye full of insulation I dismissed it.
There, now there's a hole there, I said. Yep, there is indeed a hole there, my wife replies. Eyebrow barely raised, probably not really even surprised after many years of being married to the craziness that is me. The rest of the night was fairly quiet, peaceful, & enjoyable.
Fast forward 2 days, I'm running cables in the attic. I'm moving insulation(4 layers of different junk) and I see a glimpse of something green. I peel back a stapled in chunk of old tar paper backed insulation to reveal Rem....holy sheeee....honey, I found something....out comes a rifle length box in Remington green & printed as such. I latch on to the stock of a Winchester model 290, pulled it out of the box, checked it's clear & hand it down to the giddy wife. BUT wait, seriously? There is another rifle stuffed in the box, I pull out a 788 in 22-250, clear, hand it to her & climb out with the box they were in. The box turned out to match the 788, it was in rough shape, but it had protected them reasonably well for at least 19-40yrs.
They both appear to have been fired little. Looks like a mouse had it's way dribbling what is now surface rust in a few spots on the barrels, with the 22lr taking the worst of it. We tossed the box after a pic due to the old mouse damage. I've put poison bait up there since I've owned the place so it's gotta be pretty old damage.
Now I'm wondering what else might be up there. Seriously considering removing all the insulation.
Looks like they were both dated around 76-77.
What are the odds of drilling that hole right where the box was laying?