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A Giant of a Gun

by | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

Frontiersmen and big-game hunters loved the 1876 Winchester repeating rifle.
Teddy Roosevelt packed one of his 1876 Winchesters through a true Wild West adventure. During his stint as a rancher in the Dakota Badlands in the early 1880s, Teddy Roosevelt packed one of his 1876 Winchesters through a true Wild West adventure. The future U.S. president used it to capture a quartet of boat thieves and brought them to justice—sin


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