Private Tour of MASSIVE GUN Collection! AMERICAN History!

welcome to the williams family museum so it's a private collection right yeah so joel's dad's got a collection of rifles or just guns in general i guess it should be called and he's made a museum out of it right here williams family museum pretty excited to get the chance to look bullets nice first this is insane all right guys so in our last video we said that uh we were coming to the williams family museum crazy this is a private gun collection you guys gotta remember that but they made it into a museum so we're gonna go ahead and walk around tour it be showing around and just absolutely insane just walking in this first impressions is it's crazy this is awesome all right guys so this is mr williams here the owner of this private collection and he's gonna show us around some things that he has here collected okay a lot of you folks are probably watching doesn't know who i am probably don't care who i am but i'm jeff williams i live in elkin nevada and this is what we call the williams family museum and the reason it's called the family museum is that i've got kids and grandkids and great grandkids and all of them have been helping to collect these guns over the years actually i started collecting firearms when i was 12 years old and then it was a lot easier this is back in the 1950s can you believe that and uh back in the 1950s it was a lot easier to collect guns and to buy guns than it is now and so we've been able to collect several guns i think they're all together with what we've got in elko and a few other places about fifteen hundred now my wife says uh wins enough enough and i says well it's real simple would i have maul so uh we love guns but especially antique guns and so i collect antique guns from oh just a little bit previous to the revolutionary war all the way up to current but my forte is the mountain men and the trappers and the migration west and the indian wars that they had in the plains and things like this and so what i'm going to be showing you is the museum as we have it right now now it's broken into actually two sections and follow me and i'll i'll tell you how we take care okay the first section is right here between this elk small elk and this log right here just on the other side of those hats this section here is chronologically set so that means it starts at a certain time in history and moves forward or or newer as you go on and so it starts at the mountain and the trappers and this is really a great section because almost every teenager mostly adults i know of really love that period of time because of the freedom and being able to be out in the woods and and doing all those things and trapping and and so that has always been a great when we bring people in they just love that section and he built all these clothes himself you you want to know what our last name is montero means mountain man in spanish oh really that's right that's awesome well you guys had understand this really well then so he actually built these uh jackets this is made out of buckskin and we we go to several rendezvous and things like this so i built i built them the mittens too that are insulated gets pretty cold here in other places and uh these are all insulated and they are waterproof and they're waterproof the same way that they did in the old days they use what they called hoglard or beef tallow or deer towel and that really works good and these this vest is actually made of buckskin which we all know what buckskin and where it comes from this vest as well now if you kind of key in on this picture i bought this when i was in ohio and i loved that picture because that's what i always wanted to look like and and the title of the picture was uh i think it was called uh in the mountains too long and so you guys hunt all the time so you understand that the reason we have a painting at each one of these sections here with the mountain and the trappers and civil war and the plains indian wars is that we get a lot of school groups that comes in when the school groups comes in sometimes they'll be ages of 9 10 11 12 years old and it doesn't take long for them to get you know kind of not attached to steel and wood in guns and so when they can see how people dressed and the the area that they lived in then all of a sudden it brings into interest and so we've done that for them and so we've got a fireplace here and right beside the fireplace you'll probably notice that big woolly animal yeah a couple years ago i had a buffalo hunt that was given to me as a gift from my kids and grandkids and so we we shot a buffalo and so that's the buffalo and he was 1700 pounds and we had got 800 pounds of just pure meat out of him so this was a great great opportunity now take a look at your son here there's the hat that that i made uh we were actually on a mission for the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints and we were in ohio and i got so bored because it wasn't enough stuff to kind of keep keep us going all the time and so we we start buying stuff from tandy leather and things like this to make a hat so i wanted to make a hat an old a warm hat the only kind of fur i could get was rabbit fur and i couldn't figure out how to make a form that would fold around my head so i could sew it up so we went into walmart took a measurement measured by head and measured all the watermelons so we found one that was just the right size and then we used that as a forb to do it so it worked really good this section right here is called fort helic volunteers and it's a cowboy action shooting club that we have at the base of the ruby mountains and that's on the 71 ranch and they were good enough to to loan us that property and so most of those guns are remakes or reproductions of the originals but they're several that are originals the guns that you see right here are actually my most favorite guns in the whole museum not the most valuable these are springfield trap doors and to my knowledge i probably got one of each kind of trapdoor that was made except for one or two and these were the guns that were used from just after the civil war up through and to about 1898 and so they were really great guns and so people often say well what gun was it that won the west well winchester has been taking the that name from uh but all of our winchesters wanted to develop that slogan but actually to me it had to be the springfield trapdoors because this not only won the west from the inhabitants who were native americans during that time but from uh animals like grizzly bears and things like this and so these are great guns explain explain to them this buffalo slaughter we were talking about this last night how the the buffalo slaughter this was uh this is the time in history that not everybody is really fond of but nevertheless whether we like history or not history is history yeah and so the buffalo slaughter was a a time in history between about 1870 and about 1882 maybe a little bit in 1884 where they killed millions of buffalo on the planes and out of all the buffalo that they killed only about 50 percent of them actually were sold and so that means several million rotted on the prairie but almost all the meat rotted on their prairie too because very little of the meat was was uh was used for coyotes were happy and so these are some of the guns that were used really heavy caliber guns that were used on the prairie in order to try to kill these these these big animals because they are tough and it took me three shots with a 5140 to kill that buffalo that i that i took and i was like you can get it done then and so some of these guns are just tremendously big actually it started with a springfield trap door which would have been one just like this and this is an original one this is called the second allen conversion and it shoots a cartridge it's this one like this this is called a 50 70 and this 50 70 is the cartridges that were used by a lot of the buffalo hundreds during that time and this one one just like this would have been used by buffalo bill cody during that time to kill buffalo for he was feeding the railroad hands and he nicknamed the gun lucretia borgia and i couldn't figure out why he nicknamed the cretia borgia until i went to cody where the big museum is and in there it said lucretia borgia was a murderous in a play that he had seen some time and so that was that was it but these are guns they use the the springfield trapdoors the sharps were just bundles of sharps used peabody martinis lots of remington rolling blocks even a few of these swiss 41s were used and removed rolling blocks and even a few of the english 577 snyder rifles and so this is what they use during that time now the question that we'd have is do anybody have an idea of what the biggest single use of the buffalo heights were biggest single use give me a gift uh clothes you've already been through my son it was belts i've heard people say teepees uh coats uh leather for all other types of steaks but it was belts but it wasn't belts like you use around your waist it was belts that was used in the industrial revolution to run these big factories with with with a big drive shaft that went through the top of the ceilings and came down belts to all the equipment the sewing machine the trip hammers and lathes and all this stuff and the buffalo had really thick hide and it was really wide and long and so the belch is the biggest single thing joel don't you don't do that sorry dad i thought i was wrong um here come over here and look at this buffalo look at this right here watch look at how deep this fur is dang wow okay and you know buffalo is really fast they can run and it's said that they can outrun a horse in 50 feet so i mean it's it's a fast animal these are these are some of the guns that were used during the the civil war and some of them just post revolution which means just after the revolution the most valuable again in here believe it or not is that anybody who know what that one just above the picture live action yeah it's called the henry repeater and i got that about old 15 20 years ago and i've been after one all my life but the price just kept outrunning me so that when people say well what's the most valuable gun that's the most valuable gun but the gun that i love the most is a cult single action army that my wife got for me just after we were married we've been married 54 years and she bought it at an auction for 355 dollars and it's worth 10 to 15 000 now wow and the serial number is 41 357. and my wife heard me give this presentation one time and she says that's incredible that you could remember those serial numbers and you can't remember my birthday oh dad you remember mom you can't remember mine come over here and fill this fur how beautiful this is you know it's just it's it's amazing feels like when i used to have afro yeah right yeah i know it's it's like beautiful human hair yeah this is the cartridge that i shot him three times with this so we're getting down that's a 50 140 50 caliber 650 grain bullet 140 grains of black powder and when they cut and wrapped him they found this bullet on the hindquarters and so i shot him in the chest the first shot didn't even get him down that was clear on the other end of him and he was over about 10 feet long so this would have gone through about nine feet of flesh and but didn't hit a vital organ well is that the actual that's the actual bullet that thing went through nine feet above all yeah so i think do you have some meat in the freezer still that we can send these guys home i do i i do and you'll have to go get some from uh ida and their steaks and things like that you guys can take several packages of that home with you it's really good meat it's it's a little bit more dry than beef but it's got a great flavor especially when it's not cooked now i don't need to tell you guys anything about cooking because i've watched your videos on cooking boy you make me hungry every time i see them happening we'll have to cook you up some rattlesnake well i'll tell you what i'll i'll give you some buffalo and you don't have to repay me with rattlesnake all right now back here is some other good that you might be interested in this is if we start moving forward we move from the post-revolutionary war to the civil war and then finally we get into the period that i really love the most and that's the plains indian wars and the migration west and so the uh the centerfold of the whole thing is the custer battle and so there's a picture of the country battle these are some of the guns that were used during the migration west and the guns that were used at the custer battle now these aren't original guns used at the cusp battle these are just like the guns that they use and if i had some guns at the custer battle i wouldn't be dressed in in work clothes right now because they're they're very valuable but the single the single shot um the springfield trap door uh carbine is what the soldiers were used a lot of the indians were using uh henry repeaters and 1866 winchesters and it was just a major deal i'm told that the custer battle is the most studied battle in u.s history can you believe that and that sitting bull is the sitting bull on one side and general kester on the other side and when you think about the civil war and first world war second world war and even iraq that that you were in um there were many battles that over you know several thousand soldiers were were died in those battles and the tester battle was about 200 and some soldiers that were killed which is a lot there's no doubt but to have that be the most studied battle is incredible and so it also was one that i'm really interested in so i decided to put that as the centerfold that we have here some of the guns that are really valuable and hard to get on the winchester side that's a 76 winchester now you've all heard of the winchester 73 that's the big daddy the 73 and then the next one they produced was winchester 76 and they thought they were making it for the buffalo hunters but it was so long and so heavy that the buffalo hunters really didn't want a piece of it so it didn't sell very well and so they only made several thousand and then they stopped building them which to a collector scarcity is what really makes them valuable now behind you here is all men in the outlaw now there isn't anybody i know of who studies history that doesn't like to to study about the bad guys and the good guys and what they did and so these are some of the guns that they use now the reason that i made this particular display is i had a fellow who brought this double barrel shotgun in that's an lc smith 10 gauge this spin chop that is an actual um coach gun it's actually was used by the wells fargo messengers and uh was used between i'm told between san francisco and and carson city nevada and of course carson city they put that that route between uh going over the sierras which was one of the the toughest routes they had because there were so many places they had switchbacks and stuff for the bandits to to to rob them that it had a lot of robberies and so you've got all kinds of guns that were used during that time and of course i've got a picture here of the arizona rangers and i've heard a lot of people say well wouldn't it be neat if these guns could talk well i've got some guns that can talk do you want to hear them talk yeah okay this gun here it'll tell you a little about something about this is used by the arizona rangers and you see the butt stock how it's all nicked up and scratched and everything but the rest of the gun is in pretty good shape why do you suppose that is it wasn't some kind of rack maybe well they helped they had them on horseback and they had this stuck in the saddle scabbard so the only thing that was sticking out that was getting beat up by limbs and brush and cactuses and things like this with with this rifle so i would say that could talk here's one was owned by a rancher so winchester 1892 and and maybe a sheep a sheep rancher even and in the same thing it's all scratched up because the rest of it was protected in the scabbard you're going to be able to hold a conversation with that muzzleloader you sent me out with yeah i hope so did you shoot it do you think what's it today didn't quite make it yeah so anyway that gut i was just talking about is is that one right there that's a cold single action army 41357 45 colt and uh that's caught that's first generation black powder model so it is really old 41 000 357 this particular gun i've got papers on it with sold a shared heart and graham in 1877 i think oh geez so it's really old yeah yeah any questions the the coins the coins are they're real persons oh they're they're real they're morgan silver dollars and morgan silver dollars uh when i was a kid working in a service station if a gasoline was 39 cents a gallon you don't you don't know what that's like but i was only making a bucket a half an hour but gas tank was 39 cents a gallon so when the person came in and gave you a 20 bill his gasoline would only come to about five or six or seven bucks and so we would reach in really easy and grab a whole bunch of silver dollars and give it to him and he just hate it he says i don't want these big cartwheels he says give me some paper money so we took well then all of a sudden they found out how much silver that was in those silver dollars and almost two weeks you couldn't get them anymore and so that's where we are today so morgan silver dollars are getting very very valuable now i've got a complete collection of carson city margin silver dollars over here and only two percent of all the silver dollars emitted were emitted in carson city so those aren't just rare really rare but you can't talk about nevada without talking about silver dollars and the carson city mint and what was the biggest thing that they met that that they mined at the comstock price silver silver they started with gold and they found a whole bunch of this gray stuff that they couldn't figure out was everywhere and they just hated it and they've come to find out it was silver and so silver then became what they had and obviously when they were shipping all the the gold coinage and everything from carson city into california and other places it became really a target for the bad guys who were robbing stagecoaches and and this kind of stuff so this is some of the guns that they use that bottom shotgun if you'll take it and take a shot of it that bottom shotgun is an 1887 winchester and this particular one's a 10 gauge they made it in 12 gauge and 10 gauge and when winchester started making guns he he started with b tighter henry and made the henry repeater and it just sold like pancakes he and b tighter henry separated what was the the company was called a new haven's arms company and he started his own company in about 1860 uh 65 and when he started his own company he made the 1866 and then he made the 73 and they were selling so fast he couldn't make guns quick enough and then of course the 77 and so forth well he thought they loved liver action so much that if they made a lever action shotgun they had had to be a winner he made a lever action shotgun and didn't hardly sell he could get people to buy it so the 1887 was kind of a really slow seller and they only made a several thousand and stopped making them they cranked it up again in 1901 and made a few more thousand but now that shotgun is really valuable and it and and they make remakes of it because of the cowboy action shooting people and cowboy action shooters shoot that all the time but it was used by a lot of lawmen and i'm sure by some bad guys too yeah yeah okay the books everybody that comes in says why do you have books everywhere they're everywhere and i and that's what the kids say well how did you learn all this stuff mr williams and i said well i learned them by reading i got in involved in in history and loved it and so i started reading and of course in those days we didn't have the internet or anything else we had movies and reading and that was it and uh movies only gave you a bit of the real history but the reading is do and they said well where do you start when you start studying history i said you can start anywhere you want because if you really love history you'll start at one particular area and then you'll move forward and then all of a sudden you'll move backwards and you'll just keep going until finally you've encapsulated that portion of history that's the most important to you and i feel today that uh schools are kind of missing the point on history uh some of them have even said that they're wondering how important it really is but if you don't understand your history you're not gonna be understanding your future okay wow all right remember we were talking about reading last night oh yeah yeah how we need to read books now i don't know how much time you've got so i just want to save a little bit of time for just one thing i just thought this would be nice because adrian okay this is first world war collection second world war collection and i stopped at the second world war collection because i didn't want to get involved in all the fully automatics machine guns and things like this and all the liability that you've got with that but the first world war is just a an unbelievable uh time in american history and um it's the very first war that they that the soldiers used helmets how would you like to have that on when you're in the rock that was steel helmet it's heavy it's got that button right on top and i've had it on a few times and it just kills your head the other thing is it was all wool was a uniform so it was sticky now i got this from a guy that worked for me for years and years and years his dad was a graduate or a soldier in the first world war and that's his picture right there right above that gas mask and so he had the doughboy helmet that's what it was called and the uniform but the most important thing that i got from him during that time because the moths were eating it up in a in a bag that he had had and if you look at the uniform you'll see some little moth holes in it and also the the hat and he gave it to me because of that so we built a a a cabinet made of cedar to help stop that but what he gave to me that was more important than anything was this from his dad and he kept that journal from the time he was a little boy of course this is just one spot of it but this was the spot that was during the first world war when he was in france and germany and so i had to speak in church one time on thanksgiving and i wondered what subject that i could talk to about on thanksgiving that would be interesting because mother's day and thanksgiving there's so many people speak on so many things that there's hardly anything to have been touched and so my wife and i decided let's look in that journal and see if we can figure out where he at was that and what he was doing on thanksgiving day 1918. and so we started looking around in there it was kind of hard to find because his writing was not great and it was cursive and he had a lot of water spots and things on it so it was kind of fading and stuff but we searched and searched we finally found him on thanksgiving day thanksgiving day he was in germany in a foxhole half filled with water and there was biplanes dropping bombs on him and shooting at him out of out of biplanes and he says in his journal he says if i ever survive these damn planes shooting at me and this mustard gas and bed bugs and cooties i'll be one lucky dog and you get through it wow and he ended up in nevada as a prospector uh during that time oh wow so that's his picture now with that said i think it's important that that you leave when you leave you leave with with something that that's really good that you got when you were here and and it's something for you to remember especially since your dad is a serviceman former servicemen but always a serviceman i want you to look at this picture right here and i want you to read that picture now this is a quote from george washington now keep your eyes on that little boy who's receiving a flag probably from his father or could be a brother or an uncle or an aunt or a mother and he's standing there just as bold as you can be and just as proud his lips quivering just a little bit because he he loved his parents so much and george washington says the willingness with which our young people are glad to serve in any war no matter how justified shall be directly proportional to how they perceive how the veterans or earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation can you understand that yes and so as you as you look at guns you need to look at them from kind of a different perspective than what a lot of people look at guns have really gotten a bad rap over last several years because some individuals have done some horrible things with with guns but it's not the fault of the gun it's not the fault of us who love to hunt and fish and and shoot and target practice and things like this and use them for self-protection and so it's important that people recognize that guns are what has been the instrument that has not only gotten bought in our freedom with blood but preserves our freedom today and as we have guns we can make sure that we are our freedom is guaranteed in the future and so i hope that anybody that's listening to this looks at the bottom of their heart and understands that cars are a necessary thing that gives us the best transportation we could ever have throughout the world and they have been used in lots of deadly things too even maliciously but they're they're something that's necessary and firearms are guaranteed to us through the constitution and the second amendment and we believe we have the right to heaven okay awesome all right and and this young man here his his father was killed in combat yeah well i'm guessing that that's what it was yeah yeah but one thing we know is when you look at him that tells the whole story because it's not only the soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice but their families did too yeah okay now uh i just i hope my wife doesn't see this for a little while because yesterday i just made the deals on the devils she told me what i retired you might want to cut that out she says jeff she says i want to talk to you about something i knew this is because we've been married a long time she says we've just retired you're on a fixed income now act like it do you suppose she had the same thing more and then we went on a bishop she says uh you're not going to go buy any more guns are you and i says no and i just gritted my teeth and for months i didn't even want to go to a gun store or anything else but so after that i kind of slipped a little bit and yesterday i slipped a little more this is what's called a pattern 14 infield rifle now i got to tell you a little bit about the history of this you know this was made by winchester repeating arms for england the united kingdom and this is 303 british caliber well the reason this is so important is that during the first world war our firearm of choice was the 1903 springfield that's the top two but they didn't have enough 1903 springfields to go around all the soldiers in 1917-18 and so just by choice remington winchester and eddie stone with subsidiary of remington were just finishing a contract making these pattern 14 rifles for england and so it would have taken years for the united states government to gear up for another factory and other uh tooling and and train the people to make these guns they didn't even have that we was right in the war and so they they talked to winchester remington eddystone and they says we want you to take your patter 14 rifle today chambered in 303 british and tomorrow we want to see guns that are chambered in 30 ounce 6 was the standard round for the military during that time and we'll call it the 1917 infield and so this is the pattern 14 that was the father to the 1917 infields which are the two bottom guns right there one of them is an eddie stone the other one is a winchester and the important thing to remember about that is 75 of all of our soldiers during the first world war were shooting 1917 infields now the most decorated soldier during the first world war was sergeant york have you ever seen the movie on sargeant new york i don't think so anyway he was well it goes back in my day so gary cooper if you ever heard that name before he was the he was the the actor and it shows him using it shows him using a springfield rifle when he did all his heroic deeds in fact he was used in 1917 infield and so i got this in order to make this whole display cool as a complete dad we need to show them this this 50 bmg my dad takes the nevada outdoorsman in wheelchairs and before they go on their hunt they take this rifle out and they shoot this 50 those guys in the wheelchair and talk about before they shoot it they're not sure if they can but when they're done shooting it they know they can shoot it yeah and it just is an awesome experience to be part of that in the outdoorsman wheelchair this is this is a barrett 50 bmg of course in california you can't even have a 50 bmg in california and and it's a single shot and here let's let them hold it up grab it and that's a night force going oh yeah that's really heavy 22 12 to 42 power night four scope and it shoots it's it's pretty heavy but it's but it's a little expensive to shoot yeah yeah um if you if you buy the real good ammunition it'll cut you 10-12 dollars a shot i reload it and i can do it for about five and if i use the cheap cheaper stuff like a military uh just the bullets not the whole case but military bullets i can do it for about three dollars a job so these are all the winchesters okay yeah there's four rolls you've got a big map that's kind of in the way you may have to get on the other side but there's four rolls of the winchesters and then we've got brownings in wetherby and savage winchesters and colts and smith and wesson and ruger and remington and how about that special jar [ __ ] winchester oh yeah you may want to see that this this rifle here we had an incident in elkhorn county where we were in a fight with the forest service over a road that they wanted to close up to the garbage wilderness area and so this is this is the display and i tried to click everything that i could of that jar [ __ ] and instant and that's called pronounced jar [ __ ] not bridge and this particular rifle was the showpiece that they had it was all made for and it says jar [ __ ] shovel brigade and this is a winchester 1894 and it's all been engraved by a really a famous gun uh silversmith over in star valley nevada just at the base of ruby's and he took one day on each side to engrave it it's got some special wood that's called fiddleback maple and uh it's obviously not anything that i mean it shoots it's it's a real gun but i don't think i'd ever degrade it by by shooting it just wouldn't work very well i would like to be rolling around on one of those oh yeah well you've got to kind of remember there's some benefits and and problems with that too one of the benefits is your riding instead walking but one of the drawbacks is is that the fuel tank is underneath the front seat and there's no fuel pump to the engine so if you go up a real steep hill and i can't suck the gas up in the engine it's it dies and you have to back down and turn your machine around and back up the hill to go over really yes and it's it's got uh it doesn't have a distributor and if you know anything about a distributor that's what regulates the spark to your spark plugs and so it has a lever on the column the steering column it adjusts and it it retards or advances the spark as you're going on the dash there's another little lever that you turn and it adjusts gasoline going into the carburetor so you have to start it up in the in the front without breaking your hand and making sure the car doesn't drive over you and then you take off it's got wooden wheels and so in this climate where it's really dry that wood dries out and the spokes in the wheels start to get really loose and as you're going down the road we've had it in some parades and it's click clack quickly clack as you're going down the road and in some of the parades it's a little bit dangerous to drive it because i'm i had several times the the uh the grand marshal for the parade sitting in in the car and in front of me was horses and kids that were walking or whatever and i'm playing with the clutches and adjusting and all this now they talk about not having to do texting when you're driving a car now how about in those days when you were doing about four or five things at one time and it would overheat because you're not going very fast and so with the different routes in the parade i'd have one of my grandkids in there with a squirt bottle and as i came around i'd wave to them and they'd come right out shoot the radiator with the squirt bottle to get the tool off do we keep going through the parade so it was fun these guns here are collectible guns and this is the nevada centennial 1864-1964 and they only made about 350 sets of these and i got this from from a guy who was really old and his his mother bought it for his dad in 1964 and so it's never been fired but there's a 45 colt and a 22 pistol with two cylinders that match so that's the nevada centennial this is the elko county centennial and this these are rugers 44 magnums all of them are real this is the city of elko centennial and with any of these they just make one run and only a few of them and then this is what they call the battleborn pistol during that time now these aren't really antiques which i really collect but they're definitely collectible and part of nevada's history okay these guns here are single shots now some of them are ruger number ones ruger number three is is back here um high wall winchesters remington rolling blocks sharps and all this stuff and one that you might be interested is this one have you heard of quigley down under the movie no haven't you oh gee we got to get you this is this is a rifle just like quigley had the only thing he didn't have with the scope and this is a 45 110 that was made in big timber montana by scheidel sharps and it is a fantastic gun and uh this scope is a copy of one of the old scopes that they had in those days and uh it's it it'll move back and forth it's externally adjusted it's not like the scopes we have today that all the inner inner for adjusting the scope is on the inside this is external on the outside longest scope i've ever seen yeah yeah you want to hold that scope oh yeah it's got some weight to it yeah that's what it is i was going to use that i was going to use that to shoot that buffalo and it was really cold it was in january my hunt was in february and so i took that out to the range with a good friend of mine and he took and i i shot it before but this time i didn't get it just right i didn't hold it tight enough i didn't get enough eye relief and it scoped knocked the lens out of my glasses and blacked my eye and so i put that on the shelf i took the other one you know that scope actually doubles as a walking stick yeah good it could yeah i guess it could but just to let you know how many scopes were used during the the years of the buffalo slaughter the sharps rifle like this fully 25 percent of all the sharps rifle sent from the factory were sent with scopes and that's not counting the ones that were retrofitted in the field so uh scopes have been in use for a long time yeah during the civil war they had some scopes that was on some of those sniper games and but these are single shots and we shoot those continually we have two uh uh invitational shoots a year where we shoot these things and uh some of them get really heavy this one here is the one i normally shoot this is a 50 or a 45 90 and this is a browning um creedmoor well hmm so one of these single shots like this one has two triggers what what would the two triggers before two triggers are centered let them feel how hair the triggers are yeah two triggers are set triggers so they have different weights on them well what you do is you pull back the hammer and then then you pull back this trigger and i'm not going to pull back the hammer but you pull this trigger and then oh it's very light now you go ahead you put your hand in there yep pull that pull that one yeah it's hard to pull back in this one wow yeah yeah yeah so they had they had set triggers double act called double set triggers and then they had single set triggers let me show you a single set trigger if you think that looks like this is a single set trigger on this one now single set trigger you push it forward and it locks and then you touch and it can barely touch it now you try that one wow yep so it's our accuracy that's just a few few ounces yeah this is called premature firing yeah just touch it here let me show you a gun see this gun on the website when it says when i was little chucker hunting toting a 410 shotgun this is the shotgun and where did this this was grandpa's this belonged to my grandmother who lived over in wells and my grandfather they had it on a wagon and it broke the stalk and so he just drilled some holes in it put some copper and brass washers in and sucked it in so i wouldn't take another stock and put on that for death this is a 410 and she used to go out in the morning because she lived just outside the welts a little ways yeah shoot a couple say chicken and have them cleaned and ready to go for dinner that night wow and so that's where this one came from and i i had it and passed it down to my senses as they got older but when i was i was walked beside behind my dad one time and i had this and i had it opened with a shotgun shell in it and somehow i fell and it closed and fired and just missed him and so uh he made a believer out of him at me yeah and then i've i've taken my daughters out and they've shot in this little 410 and yeah it's just that's what it's all about you know some guns are just full of of history but memories and so this is a family heirloom this will never be sold it'll just keep passing on down and that just happens to be what we're trying to figure out right now as to what to do with all these guns when i pass and all my kids are saying don't sell them we want to keep the museum just as it is but when i look at the future i i just wonder about what the future could bring with legislation with values with people who break into places like this and steal things but now all my kids and grandkids are interested in guns but there could come a time when my kids or grandkids are saying you know what we don't care about those things we like golf or we like doing something else and so it might be harder to do it so we're we're just trying to to wonder what what we should do well here let me just so everybody knows don't ever try to break in here because it's highly it's a a lot of electronics yeah and you won't get away we are live probably we have a company that does a lot i.t work for the mines and things like that so they do burger lawns and stuff what we have in here is we have barred windows bar doors we have a ring down circuit at the sheriff's office we have panic alarms we've got cameras in each of the corners and motion detectors and all the build in all the sides and i'm not saying you couldn't get in here i'm saying you might not leave that does that disrupt buttons so hasn't every firearm been uh logged logged well what we're doing right now is uh i was kind of commissioner here for several years and the sheriff has agreed to run all the serial numbers on all these guns to make sure that that there isn't any of them that's hot now when you've bought i've purchased guns since the 1950s so i bought them from not internet but from individuals off the street and service station newspapers and different people of course they may not even know it was hot during that time probably didn't so it's always possible that during that time you could have gotten a gun that was that was stolen i don't want any of those in here so he's checking that he says you know mr williams if if we find one that's stolen you're going to have to answer some questions and you're going to lose it i said i i'll answer as many questions as i can remember and i don't want it here if it's if it's stolen again i want everything in here to be totally legal so he's running all the guns but he said he could only do it in about 30 or 35 guns at a time because it takes time for his secretaries to get that done and so we have done that old two or three times and uh we haven't haven't had any problems but you never know so that's one thing that we're trying to do to make sure that everything we've got is is tidy and legal because you don't want to be caught with a stone again yeah and nevada's got some pretty strict laws now any questions do you know what the true definition of gun control is yeah getting a good sight on the two hands two heads yeah so anyway we we do a lot of shooting we're a shooting family we're hunting family and and uh of course i i've watched you guys videos that you're definitely a shooting hunting and fishing family yeah and uh so you it you're they're fantastic i i've watched a lot of videos of hunting videos and they're all real good but when you take the game and you can see it you you cut it and and shoot it and and you butcher it and then you fry it up and you make it it's it's it's it's unbelievable yeah and so keep it up and all this all the stuff that you're teaching everybody here you know tracking and yeah and as you learn you teach people and and that's what it's all about and i notice that all the way through you're talking about conservation and things like this and doing things within the law and that's that's that's what we do that's the reason we have lots of game in the united states is because it is given out as we should shot at right times of the year only so many animals are killed and taken and uh and you guys have been involved in archery too so yeah it's good we commend you for it you're good citizens thank you good nevadans and you've got a good dad thank you i don't know your mother but i think i've seen her in some of the pictures yeah she's a good lady yeah yeah she's nice she doesn't she's brains on the camera and stuff but how old are you i 19 19 15. 15. do you have anybody else that does this with your family or is it just your this this is this this is the whole game this is the whole gang yeah yeah that's awesome i was the first one to get into hunting in my family well that's great it's it's a great it's a great sport and you know what a lot of people don't understand by hunting you've heard of the pittman-robinson act have you the pittman-robinson act is an act that was passed oh decades ago that puts an excise tax on all hunting equipment guns and ammunition and this stuff and that excise tax then goes back to individual states and the states has kind of a matching system on that excise tax and between the two of them together they buy habitat they they do all sorts of things to to sponsor gun safety and and and to help establish sanctuaries and and things like this for for for game and so while a lot of the people who don't like hunting don't buy any of this stuff we're the ones that actually pay for the right for these animals to to exist yeah to flourish habitat and things like this people say well you're you're just killing stuff and you don't do anything else right when you look at the dollar if the dollars mean anything we put dollars behind it mm-hmm oh actually okay you said you're the first one to start hunting right we got a shotgun that's going to start becoming a hair loom in our family also he bought uh one of the first shotguns you ever bought was that mossberg 500 right yeah he bought a mossberg 500 while going yeah i shoot it still today and he shot it a bunch and a great gun yeah there's there's lots and lots and lots of good guns in there and you know it kind of pains me to see the legislation that they're talking about that's coming up and if president trump loses this election it could mean a a drastic change in in what we do with firearms and things like this they're already in places like california got lead bands and things like this and it's all pushed in to try to drive us out of shooting because if it's hard for you to get ammunition or if it's so expensive to get it then you probably would give up the sport so i hope that there are some things that we can do together as democrats and republicans that would help solve the problems of this terrible violence that's going on and still let us enjoy our sport exactly because it's more of a lifestyle than yeah yeah so at one point in time when i was here watching the place for him this was the one right gear headquarters headquarters the factory the yeah the whole show we got to show the museum and sail cam yeah do you guys reload it all no you got to show them is that dad they're they're wanting to get in time because i'm just getting into it right yeah yeah yep boy if if ever you want to get into it if i can help you by coming down and enjoy stuff this actually here is antique antique thank you antique reloading equipment herders when i was a young man and a young adult was the best place in the world to buy the reloading equipment guns and ammo and tents and anything sporting that you could deal with and so i've made it a point to collect everything i could that was herders lyman as well was was a big deal so here's her bullets and guns and reloading equipment things like that that's how i got started when i was 12 years old gotcha yes i didn't know that yeah well thank you mr williams i really appreciate it my pleasure on this tour keep up the good work we've watched yeah we wish that we could be there with you and a lot of times you've been in elko county shooting we've seen your coyote shoots with spencer eggbert and things like this and we all grew up together with his family and things like that so keep it up what you do is really important because when when when people who are anti-hunting anti-gun people see that you've got a family atmosphere where you've got good law-abiding citizens that go to school work hard our veterans doing the things that makes this country great um it really helps promote good feelings between all of us awesome awesome you got a great place here awesome this is better than the arms room when i was in the military i don't know what to say about this sometimes well and that was just about the coolest museum i think i've ever walked into i'm a big museum person i love history i love seeing all this old stuff and i just gotta say that was impressive and i had a great time so you guys ever stopped by um williams family museum definitely recommend it 10 out of 10 stars if i could rate it what about you soon yep 10 out of 10. so awesome place the hospitality was amazing um they just knew their history and it was awesome you had a good time juke yeah it was great i'm glad i got to see it it's awesome yeah so now sun we're about midday so we got a little bit of a drive ahead of us to go ahead and try to punch julian's tag um if you guys haven't seen that video highly recommend you guys check that one out it's an awesome time whether or not i think you guys watching and i'll see you outdoors i'll see you outdoors

Channel: Sin City Outdoors

Views: 51,949

Rating: 4.9085546 out of 5

Keywords: history, private museum, tour, sin city outdoors, williams family museum, elko nevada, 50 cal sniper rifle, wild wild west, museum tour, lets go, hunting, fishing, outdoors, mountain man, survival, hoarders, remington, henry repeating arms, nevada, museum in elko, museum, firearms, safe, american history, gold miners, mountain men, trappers, hunters, youtubers, american sttlers, how america was started, first americans, early american history

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Length: 55min 15sec (3315 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020