NRA Sporting Arms Museum, Missouri - GunWebsites Weekly Gun Museum Tour

I’ve been in there and it was a cool museum.I live in st Louis and it was well worth it.

That gun in the thumbnail definitely has my interest. How neat!

In 1959, Tom Frye, a field representative for Remington, set out to surpass Ad Topperwein's world record (set in 1907) of shooting 72,500 2 1/2-inch wooden blocks as they were tossed into the air while missing only nine. Frye used three Nylon 66 rifles and maintained an average pace of 1,000 shots per hour (one shot every four seconds) for 13 consecutive eight-hour days. When the smoke cleared, he had shot at 100,010 blocks and hit 100,004, missing only six! The rifles were cleaned only five times during the Marathon trial. [American Rifleman August 27, 2009.]



A Nylon 66 was used by a Remington professional shooter Tom Frye to hit, in the air, 100,004 hand thrown wooden blocks (about 2" square, if I remember correctly) out of a total of 100,010 thrown. This was (and probably still is) the world record for breaking wooden blocks, and was used in Remington advertising copy to illustrate the reliability of the Nylon 66. [From Chuck Hawks Webpage and other sites say similar things too, as to the 100,000.]

I liked the section on Teddy Rooseveldt's firearms. Didn't get the chance to go into archery section. The presenter that was on American Riflemen tv feature was on duty when i went. That is the biggest Bass Pro in the country.