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Still in search

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 3 months ago: The CFM is still in search of a curator. We have interviewed a number of good candidates and have a … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Firearms Research, Museums, Non-profit, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, cody firearms museum, firearms manufacture

June in Cody4 comments

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 6 months ago: We are into our busiest weeks of the year.  This weekend (June 12-14) the CFM and the town of Cody h … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Firearms Research, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, cody firearms museum, Firearms Collecting, gun-collecting, Museum Exhibit, Records Office, Whitney Gallery of Western Art

Perpetuated Oddities

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 7 months ago: If you spend enough time in the gun business, you learn better than to say that Winchester, Colt, Sm … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museum Supporters, Firearms Industry, Books, Firearms Research, winchester, firearms manufacture, gun-collecting, Firearms Collecting

More about change

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 7 months ago: (This is an excerpt from a post I left on the forum at www.Gunbroker.com. I am posting this here as … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museums, Museum Supporters, cody firearms museum, Oklahoma, Curator, Museum Exhibit, gunbroker.com

Lots to do

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 8 months ago: So I am watching it snow while thinking about all of the various and sundry things that are going on … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, trips, Museums, Museum Supporters, Gun Shows, cody firearms museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Curator, winchester

Gun Show Support from the Cody Firearms Museum

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 8 months ago: All - The following is a listing of the shows that we will be supporting through the beginning of su … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, trips, Museum Supporters, Gun Shows, Firearms Research, cody firearms museum, business trips, winchester, gun-collecting

More "gun guy" questions6 comments

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 8 months ago: We often receive questions from gun guys who are hoping to better understand the production of antiq … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museum Supporters, Books, Firearms Research, cody firearms museum, winchester, firearms manufacture, gun-collecting

1,000,000 is less than 350,000? (or: Customer Service is the Key)

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 9 months ago: I am constantly impressed by the ability of the Records Office Staff to respond positively to questi … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museum Supporters, Firearms Industry, Gun Shows, Firearms Research, cody firearms museum, winchester, firearms manufacture, gun-collecting

Disaster Planning

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday, the staff of the Cody Firearms Museum went through a mental exercise to determine what wo … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museums, Conservation, cody firearms museum, winchester, disaster planning, Walter Hunt, Napoleon XV, catherine the great

Some Bad Guns Out There...2 comments

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 9 months ago: One of the most time-consuming, but interesting, aspects of life at the Cody Firearms Museum is resp … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Firearms Research, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, California Huntress, cody firearms museum, Curator, fake guns

Firearms and Wilderness Conservation

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 10 months ago: One of the more popular exhibits at the Cody Firearms Museum is our Adirondack Cabin. Built to resem … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Politics, Non-profit, Firearms Industry, cody firearms museum, Conservation, National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF, Pittman-Robertson

Gun Reference Books2 comments

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 10 months ago: The staff of the Cody Firearms Museum is often asked about old guns that people have. Whether just f … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Firearms Industry, Books, Firearms Research, The Blue Book of Firearms, Flayderman's Guise to Antique American Firearms, The Standard Catalog of Firearms, Firearms Values, Firearms Appraisal

Heading Home

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 11 months ago: I am sitting at gate D43 in McCarran Airport, waiting for boarding to start. The weekend here in Veg … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, trips, Museum Supporters, Firearms Industry, Gun Shows, winchester, Firearms Collecting, Colt, L.C. Smith

Day 1 at the Las Vegas Antique Arms Show

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 11 months ago: It was a busy day here. Given that the attendance was down last year (by appearances and the general … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Gun Shows, Museum Supporters, trips, cody firearms museum, gun-collecting, Las Vegas Antique Arms Show

Viva Las Vegas... Well, for this weekend, anyway

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 11 months ago: I am sitting in the airport in Cody, Wyoming. About four hours from now, I will be arriving in Las V … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, trips, Museum Supporters, Gun Shows

Working on vacation

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 12 months ago: OK – when you get a free tour of gallery and vault spaces at one of the best military museums … more →

Tags: trips, Museums, National World war II Museum, D-Day Museum, Museum Exhibit, World War II, wwii, New Orleans, American Firearms of World War II

XRF means X-Ray Fun!!!

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 1 year ago: Not really. XRF is X-Ray Fluorescence. Essentially, it involves shooting low voltage x-rays at a tar … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Conservation, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, X-RAY FLUORESCENCE, alloys, firearms manufacture

Happy Thanksgiving!7 comments

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 1 year ago: The Winchester Wingo - in the original crates I want to make this one a short one given that we are … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, Museums, Firearms Industry, cody firearms museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, winchester, wingo, National Shooting Sports Foundation

M4s, Football, Lunch, and things

codyfirearmsmuseumblog wrote 1 year ago: Something of notice from a firearms history perspective – last week, the US Army announced tha … more →

Tags: Business as Usual, M16/M4, US Army, Conservation


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