I once bought a gun that was buried with the owners body. Some time later the son dug up the body and removed the rifle. I bought it but it smelled so bad I had to leave out on the porch. I tried every thing to remove the dead body smell, moth balls, lemon oil everthing. A year later it was still there and I was just about ready to burn the stock. I put it in a box with rags soked with Hoppe's Number 9. In one month the smell was gone.
That must of been some rifle!
I can't imagine someone digging up Pop to get his Iver Johnson singleshot 22 so he could sell it.
What kind of rifle was it?
