Reeder Custom Guns - I have never owned a plastic pistol ...

Jim Taylor
I have never owned a plastic pistol ...
Monday, July 06, 2020, 19:12

don't like the cheapness of the way they are made ... lots of things I don't care for about them ... BUT .. I picked up a Kahr CW 45 the other week for about nothing. The person selling it needed money .. it's a long story. Anyway .. the gun sat in a safe for several years, in some kind of gun storage bag .. was never cleaned .. and rusted to the bag.

This is what it looked like when I picked it up.
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I killed the rust with penetrating oil and bronze wool.
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Been polishing on it in the evenings. It's coming along.
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The thing functions just fine. Only problem I ran into was it would not chamber .452" bullets. I mic'd the barrel and the bore is .450" ...

So I sized some of my cast bullets down to .450" and will load them soon and see how it does.

Shooting offhand at 15 yards it was easy to keep all the shots together.

It is a no frills gun ... long smooth trigger pull ..feels like you cock the striker all the way. But all I have into it is a little cash and some sweat.

My first plastic pistol.

I have never owned a plastic pistol ... - Jim Taylor, 2020-07-06, 19:12
- Seems like a good score Jim. Never in my wildest dreams... - Huey, 2020-07-07, 03:17
  - When I was younger I was a bit emotionally attached - WB, 2020-07-07, 05:23
- That's a Moonie gun! lol - WB, 2020-07-06, 19:47
  - jacketed ball works just fine in it. (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2020-07-06, 20:26
    - I've run across guys who loved them and - WB, 2020-07-06, 20:43
      - Recoil does not seem heavy ... - Jim Taylor, 2020-07-06, 20:51
        Just to confirm - Burban, 2020-07-07, 10:12
        No. Not on this one anyway. (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2020-07-07, 10:19
        The polymer gives, soaks up some if the recoil. - Asa, 2020-07-07, 07:48
        Must be the chamber pressures. - WB, 2020-07-06, 21:01
  - An interesting read, anti-gun flavored but - WB, 2020-07-06, 19:56
    - that article is also 21 years old. They are an unusual - Gary Reeder, 2020-07-07, 11:37
      - who would have ever thought they would see that many ARs - charlie A., 2020-07-07, 12:37
        yeah, AR-15s in church but I can't complain. They are ready - jerry Biggs, 2020-07-07, 12:41
- Coming along pretty good! (nm) - Derek, 2020-07-06, 19:34
  - Just as a design study this is the - WB, 2020-07-06, 21:16
    - No plastic guns - Alcorn, 2020-07-07, 05:47
      - In semi-autos I prefer the 1911 ... - Jim Taylor, 2020-07-07, 06:18