Reeder Custom Guns - couple of guns just finished. Due to the extreme shortage of

internal parts, barrels, chemicals for bluing and refinishing, ammo for test firing and so on, we are pulling guns out of our 11 safes and finishing those that we have the parts for. These guns were blued last night (late late late last night) and are ready to be shipped out. I will be rebluing more guns this weekend. I get calls and e-mails every day chewing my ass out because we are so far behind, but there is absolutely nothing we can do about it other than wait for the parts listed above to become available again. We are getting 5 or 6 guns out the door each week so there is some progress but with well over 300 guns in our order book it is a slow process.

First here is a black powder Avenger, sort of a prototype of a new series we are working on. Amazingly black powder revolvers are hard to find just like centerfire guns. Anyway, here is that Avenger, short barrel, full engraved on barrel and cylinder, color cased (factory) and factory grips. I am not going to tell you who it is for but his initials are Scott Boggs.
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Next are 2 guns for Joe Lew. First a S&W model 13 in 357. Joe wanted the Positive Performance Package (PPP) and a full refinish in our deluxe Black Chromex. It turned out real nice.
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Joe's second gun is a 45 Long Colt Blackhawk. Joe wanted the Positive Performance Package, a deluxe Black Chromex finish and fit his custom Gunfighter gripframe and grips. Again it turned put real nice.
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Next is a Ruger Vaquero for Mark Moore. He wanted a full refinish in our deluxe Black Chromex and a set of Mongolian stag grips. Another nice one for Mark.
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Next is a Super Blackhawk for Reid Boland. Reid wanted the Positive Performance Package, our interchangeable blade front sight with the gold bead blade, the chambers polished, take the barrel warning off, jewel the hammer and trigger, a Belt Mountain base pin, a steel ejector rod housing and the Vapor Honed finish. It turned out real nice. The grips I am not sure about. I think a bowling ball gave it's life for those grips.
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Those are all nice, really like the grips on the blued Blackhawk.

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Of consigning a full custom or even specific custom alterations. Not many things offer such subtle lasting satisfaction. It’s perfect.

The rig includes a custom French style case and accessories. What a special piece for my family.

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Most of the Italian clones I have used, admittedly mostly Pietta and ARMI etc., use the .451's. I had some .454 for my Ruger but it shot .451's OK too. I figure the soft lead is very easily bumped up by the sudden forces of the Back Powder. It's my theory that its the main contributing factor to the good accuracy.

The only issue is bullet pull with larger bore C&B. Not something they really thought of or had to worry about back in the 1800's. I ran bullets as heavy as 340 grs. in my ROA. In the C&B you have a "fixed" volume to work with in that chamber. When you go to a longer bullet you take up available powder capacity. Also you just forced a greasy soft lead bullet into a hole, how hard is it for recoil to "pull" the bullet back out? You can mash it in there as hard as you want it is still a limited friction fit. The 340's would manage about 2-3 shots before the 750 fps inertia hammered the slugs out far enough to tie up the action. I found 270 gr. bullets about the perfect compromise (actually sized .451 (not .454) to allow easy loading. Using 777 powder I got right at 900 fps. Not a powerhouse but a step ahead of the old Cowboy .45 Colt or .44 Special. The 270's would hold still for the 6-shots I needed them to. I always wanted to toy with "hollow" base bullets tinkering with increased powder capacity with more bullet weight. But that volume thing cannot be overcome, you hit a compromise point.

Round balls weigh lots less than conicals. The forces of inertia are less. Even with the max. powder capacity used I have never seen bullet pull an issue. The only problem is the paper energy (math with coefficients) shows much less energy numbers even given a higher velocity. That said, the lead RB does much more damage than the math would reveal alone.

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