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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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