[Grayrock]

Did anyone else see the article about Teddy Roosevelt's Winchester lever action with the threaded barrel? He had a Maxim suppressor attached to it so he could rid the White House grounds of vermin without disturbing his neighbors!! What a guy!!

[Ian]

Among presidents who won Nobel Peace Prizes, I think he's the coolest one. :)

[Swing]

Haven't seen the article, but would so dig reading it. :D

[TurtlePhish]

I've seen it.. that thing is awesome.

Here's a pic I saved from when I read the article a while back:
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q532/TurtlePhish/7d35654e.jpg

[Tinker]

Jeez, I wonder what kind of vermin they had in those days? What caliber is that rifle? Teddy have feral hogs ? rooting about the WH trash cans?

Can you imagine being able to go back in time and prowl the WH grounds with Teddy as you're ambushing rats? The end of the night he'd want to swap that lever gun for your supressed 10/22. That would be awesome.

[TurtlePhish]

Jeez, I wonder what kind of vermin they had in those days? What caliber is that rifle? Teddy have feral hogs ? rooting about the WH trash cans?

The article says it's probably a .30-30. What I think is that he used this at his personal home, not the White House. I could be wrong.

[CoRoMo]

Article: http://www.guns.com/nra-national-firearms-museum-theodore-roosevelt-collection-suppressed-winchester-model-1894-8024.html

[dogrunner]

Those old Maxim's were neat. I once owned a .22 /25 version, marked 1910 as I recall, thing had interupted threads and a baffle structure that was coiled from the initial expansion chamber to the front end in one continous spiral. Downside was that it was not possible to dismantle and clean the thing so I used to soak it in solvent, mine had obviously had seen a lot of use with corrosive ammo. Still, it worked and quite well at that. I had the thing mounted on a MK3 Ruger via an adapter and compared with some of the modern stuff I'd rate it as about equal. Noise signature was about that of a modern fairly powerful air rifle.

That design had relief holes drilled in a recessed lower 'spine'....as I recall there were about 5 or 7 such. Like I said, neat and I'm sorry I ever let it go.