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Folks, please, it's T.R. or Theodore, not "Teddy". Poor man is spinning in his grave. I swear he'd take his quirt to all your backsides...

Hey Checkman, I was in Cody when you were there. I know because when I walked by the Roosevelt display case for the 10th time there was a fellow standing there making a drooling mess on the floor. Totally embarassing...

...I had already used up a box of Kleenex's and my hankie...

Anybody know where TR's sporterized Springfield went/is?

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LOL. Well what can I say. That is one terrific museum. I hate heights with a passion. To say it's a phobia is an understatement. But to get to Cody I gladly go over that mountain pass in Yellowstone Park to get through the East gate and onto Cody. My wife drives and I close my eyes. The things we do to look at classic firearms. Firearms that we can't even touch! And we (men) make fun of woman and their various quirks.

What I really found amusing is that the museum opens at 7:00 A.M. during the summer hours. My wife stayed in bed at the motel on our second day and I was there at 7:05 A.M. Just me and a bunch of guys all going to the right ,after entering the building, into the firearms wing.

Of course you know who the real hardcore guncranks are by who goes into the basement area and stays. Just rifles, shotguns and handguns stacked up with no pretty pictures or gee whizz audio-visual displays like on the first floor.

To the members who are not in the United States. If you ever get a chance pay a visit to the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody, Wyoming do it. Winchester donated it's firearms collection to the museum in the late seventies and in the following decades many extensive and amazing private collections have also been donated. There is a terrific shotgun and double rifle display for example. They have one of those crazy cross-eyed shotguns (with the weird shaped stock) for example and a Sharps Coffee Mill carbine. Aren't too many of those.

I like Teddy also even though I know it wasn't what he went by. But he's a victim of his own political campaigning. I just watched the Wind and the Lion again so I was inspired to ask about his Holland and Holland. Judging by the response my post has generated there is alot of interest in President Roosevelt.

A $1,000,000 dollars. Wow. By the way how do you "Lose" a forend of a stock? Yes I know that rifles are taken apart all the time, but you would think that there would have been more care taken with one of T.R's rifles. Especially a Holland and Holland.

I guess to the family it was just another one of T.R.s "guns" and great care was not always excercised.

Thanks for all the great responses.

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To the members who are not in the United States. If you ever get a chance pay a visit to the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody, Wyoming do it. Winchester donated it's firearms collection to the museum in the late seventies and in the following decades many extensive and amazing private collections have also been donated.

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Really true, it is a great museum. Very fine layout, and lots of interesting and rare guns. I remember years ago standing at every revolver display trying to guesstimate the b/c gap of each wheelgun with my then-about 12 year-old son. We were standing there conglomerating about whether the old-timers had to put up with lead spitting like we do and then I got self-conscious about being a real weirdo, a real gun crank with the powder sickness running thru my veins. But looking around, there were a number of other little groups noting this or that esoteric fine point about this shootin' iron or that one and a few guys wearing their wives out with descriptions of functionality and bore-and-groove dimensions.

And then I felt like I was at home, albeit "Home" being the Gun-Nut-House!

There are other very fine arms museums,too.

The all-time best I've ever been to is the Tøjhusmuseet in Copenhagen, Denmark. Absolutely amazing. I am not sure but I believe it to be the largest publicly displayed small arms museum in the world. Worth going to Copenhagen just to see.

As for TR...he is easy to love as a hunter, game conservationist and patriot, but I must confess, I hate his foreign policy politics and his participation and leadership in taking the USA once-and-for all out of the realm of a Jeffersonian Republic and onto the world stage as a super power.

He is the Patron Saint of the Mediocre Game Shot. Honest enough to admit he didn't make one-shot-kills every time...or every other time...or even frequently...

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