Texas Rangers: History of their guns.

[RiverRat]

Here is th link to the Texas ranger Museum. Wealth of info including interviews with former and retired Rangers. http://www.texasranger.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Enjoy!

Very good reading. Mrs. RiverRat just found her g-g-g---grandfather,g-g-g----uncle, and sons and 5 others were one of the early 1823 Ranger groups formed by Stephen F. along with Samuel Walker who later became a capt........(Walker Colt fame). Thanks. That's Cool.

One of my grandfathers was also a Ranger prior to WWII, but understand at that time there were a couple of thousand Rangers, not the 130ish they have now.

I guess we need to get up to Waco and see the museum.

[T3hK1w1]

There's a small gunshop I frequent in Tomball that has some Texas Rangers memoriabelia and some guns that were owned by various Rangers. Being a gun shop, they are for sale, but he's got them set up so you can really look at them-a lot of them are customized. I seem to remember him mentioning at one time that he used to be a ranger, which would explain the interest.

[srothstein]

Just so you know, there is a second Texas Rangers museum in San Antonio. I have never been in it though it looks itneresting, and they have apparently moved to a partnership with the Buckhorn Museum. The museum in Waco is the Ranger Museum and Hall of Fame and is owned by the City of Waco. The one in San Antonio is called the Texas Ranger Museum and is run by the Former Texas Rangers Association.

The one in Waco has the gun collection and I have stopped and looked at it before.

[XDgal]

[quote="surprise_i'm_armed"]The Texas Ranger Museum is in Waco, right next to I-35 and on the banks of
the <whozit/whatzit?> River.
That would be the Brazos River.

[fickman]

The Texas Ranger Museum is in Waco, right next to I-35 and on the banks of
the <whozit/whatzit?> River.
That would be the Brazos River.

You beat me to it.

There's also a Texas Rangers museum in Arlington, but many of the guns were apparently enhanced by steroids.



(I'm a huge baseball and Rangers fan. . . so yeah, it's a cheap shot, but you've got to admit that the team seams to have been Grand Central Station for the steroid controversy.)