What is history of vintage shotgun used by Teddy Roosevelt?

December 12th, 2009 by eranio

Has brass metal inlaid on the stock with name Roosevelt

2 Responses

staisil
December 12th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

“The Winchester stocked and sighted to suit myself is by all odds the best weapon I ever had, and now use it almost exclusively… ”
- Theodore Roosevelt
John P
December 12th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

You’d have to know more about the shotgun itself, i.e., its gauge, where he used it & when and so on. For instance, for his hunting expeditions in the US he carried Winchesters. An 1887 Winchester shotgun would look something like this:

http://www.winchestercollector.org/guns/1887shot.shtml

But in his African expedition of 1908, he took some English firearms as well; read "African Game Trails" for more information.

Additionally, in his expedition to the Amazon, his firearms were varied. Also, as a side note, read about Roosevelt’s eyewitness account of watching pirahnas eat a cow down to the bones. The event was actually stage-managed by the locals, but it’s impressive nonetheless.