Posted on 11/27/2017 5:32:57 AM PST by w1n1
If you didn’t know, the late President Teddy Roosevelt really loved his guns for shooting, hunting and battle. He was obviously an avid user and collector. He was seriously into the Winchester lever-action rifles. Historians say his most prized was the Winchester Model 1894 chambered in .30-30, titled by Roosevelt as the “little .30”.
When this rifle was first introduced, Roosevelt tried it out and took down an antelope at approximately 190 yards. He marveled at its usefulness and called the .30-30, “Aces.” Because he was such a gun nut, he had to have this one at his Long Island home as well.
Now for his home setting Roosevelt had this rifle suppressed with a Maxim silencer. The main purpose of this “Ace” was for varminting, culling local pests on and around his property. The suppressor was for not startling his neighbors, he was being respectful.
Historians also noted that TR always shipped his suppressed Winchesters with him on hunts, mostly to kill time while at sea. Read and see the rest of T Roosevelt suppressed Winchester rifle video here.
And people make fun of me for plinking turtles out of a tank and blasting prairie dogs with a suppressed 24” .308
Oh yes, that “great” PROGRESSIVE Teddy Roosevelt. Bah humbug.
**mostly to kill time while at sea.**
he have a permit to hunt that?/s
Oh, hey! That’s a fun day!
Years and years ago, I was working on a ranch in west Texas. Close to dusk, when we’d finished our fence-building or whatever, I’d grab one of my guns and head over to one of the 5 or 6 tanks on the place. They were chock full of turtles and snakes.
I’d sit somewhere on the edge and shoot turtles and snakes for an hour or so.
Pistols, rifles...whatever. I generally was either using my Ruger 10-22 or my Ruger .22 auto pistol. Sometimes, I’d use the centerfires, but they were a little expensive considering how much I would shoot.
I can still smell the mud and dried grass and burned cordite. Man, that was fun stuff.
Yeah good times
I'm not familiar with the term, what are they?
Tanks?
Yeah, I wondered if there’d be anyone who didn’t know what I was talking about.
In Texas (maybe elsewhere), smallish ponds (not big enough to be a lake) are used for watering stock...and they’re called stock tanks.
I’m not exactly sure of the etymology, but I believe the term came from an actual, metal watering tub or “tank”. Local parlance here uses tanks as the name for the watering holes I mentioned above.
Generally, the tanks are dug by the landowner. In Texas, there is only one, single natural lake. All the rest are man-made. So, probably the same can be said for stock tanks.
When it was hot, we used to swim in them. I wouldn’t do it NOW, mind you...but we did as young ‘uns. A lot of folks stock their tanks with fish (catfish, bass, bream, etc.) and fish them for fun, too.
Hope this is what you were asking about...
Regards.
Yea it is, thanks. The only tank I had ever seen was on my pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas where the farm owner had a metal tank filled with water that the horses and cattle drank out of.............
Looks like a rewrite of an article I did a few months ago. even uses the same picture.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/08/president-roosevelt-liked-silenced.html
The video is new though.
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