Possibly, not sure on it.
Texas Civil War Museum visit
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Great exhibit, would loved to have seen it, I can also highly recommend the Texas Ranger museum in Waco
I appreciate that they included the wartime production for the revolvers. Helps illustrate how minute confederate production was.
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What a superb exhibit. Wish I had known about it before.
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It is about 10% of a privately owned collection. Zero tax dollars involved.
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Is it an organization or an individual's collection? It looks like they managed to "collect them all" of the super rare revolvers.
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supposedly a very very wealthy gentlemen collected this
emphases on "very very" haha
compared to this semi-retired RN's attempt to resuscitate 2 smoothbore muskets to 'parts gun' status
due to the menagerie of parts, won't be able to play in N-SSA matches but will be part of reindeer games on my farm.
They didn't pay you enough to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on revolvers?
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/76/163/dance-brothers-confederate-percussion-revolver
Quite the museum. Would love to visit it sometime.
LOL - Nope. I'm doing good to buy a part each paycheck towards the 2 smoothbore project muskets. The big nuts for me to crack are gonna be the $250 original lock for the 1842 and a new barrel from Bob Hoyt to go on the 1840 H&P conversion. Still thinking of having Mr. Hoyt sleeve the 1842's barrel from .69 to something smaller just to have some extra steel there.
Even though it's located in the same state as myself, it's still hundreds of miles from here. And I feel most of my "traveling" days are behind me. I would and (might still) very much like to see this museum. Maybe someday?
just think, the museum holds about 10% of his collection......
PM me where you live.
May be able to set up a road trip this spring.
One of the most dangerous things on the road, 2 geezers on a mission.
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Great photos!
Seeing the uniforms, I was struck by how relatively small the men must have been as compared to nowadays. I do know the average man was about 5 feet six or seven and weighed about 130-140 pounds.
With the physical rigors of campaigning, there were no chubby soldiers, they were worn down to bone and sinew.
Seeing the uniforms, I was struck by how relatively small the men must have been as compared to nowadays. I do know the average man was about 5 feet six or seven and weighed about 130-140 pounds.
With the physical rigors of campaigning, there were no chubby soldiers, they were worn down to bone and sinew.
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NO, the one he visited ins West Ft Worth. Didnt know there was one down in Richmond(Houston area)
I think that he was wondering if they have moved the one down in Richmond to its current location in West Fort Worth or not.
That is a nice museum to visit. The cannon looks good enough to fire still as well. Unless they filled in the pits before painting it to make it look better.
They fire the big one at the Georgia museum from time to time. In case anyone wondered what that was like.
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