Reeder Custom Guns - Found a special letter today!

In all my Navy moves I thought I had lost it. A letter from Roy E. Weatherby, hand signed! I had bought a .270WBY MKV Deluxe at his shop in Southgate the day I transferred from the USS LANG (FF-1060). I met his son Ed in the shop and he and his salesman Gil found a beautiful blonde wood stocked MKV. Two years later I got a elk and a nice mule deer during a combo hunt in my home state of Colorado! I sent Weatherby pics and praise of the .270WBY and Roy responded back with a nice letter. Finding it just made my day!!!

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don`t every lose that letter.....

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I've got a Southgate pre-mark V in .270 Weatherby that I wouldn't part with, like holding history in your hands.

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the mule deer.
The old South Gate place is gone and new buildings were built.

I visited there several times in 1975. At the time, I had a 300 WBY and you could buy once fired brass for $2 a box which was from their test range in the basement. I should have bought a box of all their calibers.

Sometime later, I bought a 240 WBY barreled action from Fowler's Gunshop. Fowlers had an explosion in the mid 80's that killer several people when a fire set off the powder magazine.

I found a used 44 Auto Mag there which also came with a 357 Auto Mag barrel. They said it was a Jam-a-matic and the owner wanted no part of it. After a little break in, no more problems with jamming.

Then there was Sierra Bullets where you could buy bullets by the pound. They would make a run to polish the dies and they were called seconds. They shot fine and I still have some of them in different calibers.

Found a special letter today!

Happy for you.

good one

Very cool!!

Weatherby

I would frame the letter and pictures of the elk and

Went there many times while stationed in Long Beach!

Seirra still has an outlet that you can bullets