Reeder Custom Guns - looking back over some of the posts from 2012 down at

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Lee Jurras and John Linebaugh are two of my favorite friends. Sometimes as we go thru our busy life we forget the friends that have been with us since the beginning. I am extremely guilty of that. Lee has pointed me in the "right" direction thru the years in my gun building business, even if he didn't mean to. Just his subtle hints of "someone should build one of those" was all it took. Back in the late 70s I must have driven Lee crazy with all my never ending phone calls but he was always the gentleman he is today, never telling this young man to take a long walk off a short pier.

John Linebaugh I haven't know as long as Lee but he, like Lee, is a true gentleman. We used to sit in his truck and ride around and compare notes and ideas. Time passes and we get busier and there is no longer time for those truck rides nor even time for a phone call. And that is a shame. Neither Lee or I are youngsters anymore. John is considerably younger but he isn't a spring chicken either.

I have a hard time imagining this old world of ours without Lee Jurras, John Linebaugh or John Taffin. I will post this picture to remind me to take time to make that phone call. None of us are here forever and good friends are a cherished part of our lives, never to taken for granted.

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me in the dump years ago.

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as innocent. Nuttier than a squirrel turd maybe...but innocent, no.

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Stupid does, heard that somewhere, thanks Mr. Gump.

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South Africa August 2003, YO Celebrity Handgun Hunt, Dec. 2003, South Africa 2004 with my 17-yo son Mark: 3 cherished hunting experiences as my first wife was dying of cancer. I was a mess, you made life tolerable, doubt you knew.

Last two HHCs with my wife Phyllis and then grandson Ty, now, the HHC in March and then on to a third trip to Africa in May/Jun.

Innumerable phone calls, bitch sessions, listening to my venting, answering my 1,000s of questions...

And, last but not least, all these beautiful custom firearms in my safe keeping, at a very fair price, cherished heirlooms to pass on...to sons, daughters and grandchildren.

Yeah, add your name to the three you mentioned brother.

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looking back over some of the posts from 2012 down at

Yep. And you fill that role for some of us.

I figure maybe that is what God meant for me to do

Maybe your divine purpose...

maybe the only reason God didn't pluck my head off and throw

Maybe to yell at innocent people about their driving?

probably that too, but neither HE or I thought of the driver

Guilty as charged, small town, lots of boomers, stupid is as

amen Puff

You've always been there for me...