I asked the same thing of GMACK who sent me this quote from Montgomery's oral history: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=17096 Sounds like CYA to me.... yet I don't think a rifle of 7+ lbs or so would be as easy to hold as that... yet this blowup shows he is definitely holding SOMETHING yet when found it was folded doens to a rectangle with nothing in it.... So HOW does it get into this picture (read below) ?? David, The Museum never got an oral history from Sawyer