Reeder Custom Guns - An oldie, 10" factory octagon .45 Colt

It's on Doug's Reeder flatside'd Contender. What a thin barrel muzzle! I think you could dent it if you dropped it right. It feels too light but I weighed it and it runs 40 oz. w/o a rear sight, that would add about 2-3 oz. It needs a pound of scope and mounts at the least!

Not sure what he's intending to do with it.

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At least we have the G2 now

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And as you know he polishes the "ribbon" on the new G2 to add some style. I feel a very worthy set-apart style addition to add to a trigger job.

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Lee Jurras showed me one of his custom Contenders that he was building for some race car driver. He was having the grip and forend made of white ivory like material. He mentioned thatif I wanted to build a very special contender, that would be the flat side frames. After talking to him about that I started doing the Contender flat side frames.

We built 25 special flat side frames for Safari Club, for their 25th anniversary.
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We also did a series of blued flat side frames and the first one shown here became the playboy centerfold in GUNS magazine back in the mid 80s or so.They had a solid gold lion on the side of the frame.

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In the mid 80s we also did a series of our Pirate guns, three slab side frames and 3 or 4 barrels. They were in high polished nickel. All the barrels were 8 to 9" long and they came in a nice hard case. The pictures are funky as I was probably using a $25 camera and that was 25 to 28 years ago.
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There were a lot of other custom TCs thru the years. These are just a few of them.
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An oldie, 10" factory octagon .45 Colt

I wish flat side Contenders were more common

Gary made that one from an old Std. Contender.

we have built the flat side Contenders since the late 70s.