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Post by hairy on Mar 4, 2012 8:37:50 GMT -5
Just a short note, I was at the Cabelas website earlier this morning and noticed that they have three Gary Reeder single actions in their gun library section for sale, if anyone is interested.
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Post by Thunderjet on Mar 5, 2012 16:20:39 GMT -5
Nice revolver. What does Reeder do to a revolver like this? Replace the barrel? Line bore? Action job? Curious because the price is pretty reasonable for a "custom".
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Post by noz on Mar 5, 2012 17:39:15 GMT -5
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Post by waterboy on Mar 5, 2012 18:13:09 GMT -5
Goodness Man, which Cabelas? They have a couple dozen sites.
I have about a dozen Reeder revolvers of most garish and over the top variety. The "package guns" typically use the Ruger chassis in both OM and late variety, although Reeder has had two or three "in-house" types frames built in both std. and long cylinder types.
Mostly they get new and heavier barrels with an inverted crown and "Taylor throating" in most cases. New cylinders or re-chambered factory ones with the gap adjusted and possibly a Mountain base pin fitted of some sort. He has several gripframe styles he has done in-house and they are polished to fit the frames. Several hammer/trigger combinations are available too. Various sights including a banded front. Grips are done in house and sanded to fit the frames. They get new innerds too with free-spin pawls an option. Many other options but you get it now....
Reeder can be a curmudgeon sometimes and his styles can sometimes be a bit pimpish, mostly at the direction of his customers (me). Taffin gave him the monkier "The Henry Ford of Custom gunbuilders" and I think that befitting. He really cranks them out.
I find it a very reasonable value when I can send him a worn chassis and in 4-6 months and $1200-$1500 I get a custom, brand spanking new custom to my specifications. I do not intend to sell mine but I guess many do. My first Reeder was a used .475 Linebaugh if his "African Hunter" series. I think I paid $1150 for it. Shot the whiz out of it and he rebuilt it for free. Updated the cylinder (larger spec. bushing boss) and re-set the cyl. gap, refinished too. For nothing!
Look closely at the features then compare to his grocery list of package guns and options. He has a very extensive website.
SB
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Post by bushog on Mar 5, 2012 19:49:10 GMT -5
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Post by waterboy on Mar 5, 2012 23:04:19 GMT -5
That is pretty and handy. The stock barrel has been re-worked and no doubt it shuld shoot well. BUt he cut the barrel from 7.5" to 4-5/8" and used the stock front sight. Someone cut corners and didn't spring for the interchangeable front sight option. Note how the rear sight is all jacked up high. Now maybe he just likes to shoot very light bullets real fast, but I dunno...
That looks more al la carte to me and would be probably worth the asking price but not a premium. One of these days those "Reeders' will be in their own collectors class. There are too many not to be of real interest to niche collectors. He has many special run guns, prototypes, house built frame guns, all sorts. Made for collectors.
But again a "package gun" will have more falue than one a guy had re-worked to his personal suits. IMO.
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Post by Thunderjet on Mar 6, 2012 0:32:42 GMT -5
Seems kinda pricey for something that still has the stock barrel and sights. Lot of money just to pay for an action job and one or two extras
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Post by albundy on Mar 6, 2012 5:56:16 GMT -5
I was watching this auction also. I agree its too much money for a slightly modded Ruger. At least Reeder didnt put all the bling and lettering on this one !
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Post by noz on Mar 6, 2012 12:50:42 GMT -5
He did a "sweetening up" of a Ruger Super Black Hawk Hunter Bisley in 41 mag for me. Throat, crown, action, micarta grips ground to his "gunfighter profile".
You don't have enough money to buy it from me.
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Post by hairy on Mar 6, 2012 13:08:10 GMT -5
Waterboy,
Yea, they have many sites. However, just go to your favorite one, click on the gun library, then click handguns. They are listed alphabetically for all of their locations. If my memory serves me, they were located in the Southwest ...Arizona, maybe, perhaps one in Utah.
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Post by rjm52 on Mar 7, 2012 13:45:31 GMT -5
Gary does real nice work... This is one of the first stainless .41s he ever did... There is a .41 GNR cylinder with it also...just never loaded for it yet....   Bob |
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Post by dlhredfoxx on Mar 8, 2012 14:06:18 GMT -5
rjm52, that's some nice shooting. I have a 510 GNR African Hunter that looks very much like your 410 GNR and is also a tack driver! Hard to beat a Reeder for the money! You can spend two to three times as much for one of the "line bored" guns from a lot of the other custom smiths but for me a lower cost Reeder SA is plenty accurate for hunting within 50 yds, which is what I personally limit my hunting effective range to. I see a lot of guys here and on other forums who don't think very well of Reeder or his product but I'm not in that crowd. I also took delivery on a Reeder 5 shot conversion in 45 colt (bought used from a member over on the Ruger Forums classifieds) a few weeks ago and it is also very accurate, smooth and well built. My African Hunter is "blinged out' so to speak, but the 45 colt is plain Jane and will be going to my Father as a birthday gift later this year (after I shoot it some more).  |
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Post by rjm52 on Mar 8, 2012 18:56:15 GMT -5
Thanks foxx... You can see Elmer Keiths name in the top picture...in the second pic that Skeeter Skelton....the one you can't see is Bill Jordan..... I shot this group when someone over on the S&W Forums said that 300 grain bullets would not stabilize in a .41...I shot one group with the Reeder and one with a 657.... The group with the Reeder was 5 rounds but as the gun was sighted in with 255s a center hold sent the first shot just over the plate...so I held on the bottom of the plate with the other four and got a nice 3"group...at 50 yards.  I was real lucky to have ordered this gun when I did....even with the two cylinders and dies the total cost was under $1400.00....that is with the gun. He now charges that just for the same mods on YOUR gun.... The gun came with a FA front sight base with gold bead and Ruger V rear. That is what the target was shot with. I then tried the One-Ragged-Hole peep instead of the V and groups improved... Finally I just got a Bowen rear...the front is still the gold bead but I am thinking of having Clements make a Keith Long Range front sight like he did for a FA I have.....  There is a very very beautiful Black Widow .44 Special over on GunBroker...it is like new and less than a conversion would be.... Bob |
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Post by 45c on Mar 9, 2012 11:12:55 GMT -5
I was watching this auction also. I agree its too much money for a slightly modded Ruger. At least Reeder didnt put all the bling and lettering on this one ! Cabelas IMO is very expensive. Was in Cabelas Scarborough Maine and could not believe the prices on Ruger SA's. Scared me off. lol 45c |
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