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Gary Reeder Custom Guns - Brace Yourself!
I picked up a brace of Gary Reeder's Gamblers Classic conversions last weekend as our gun club swap meet. They were done around 2006 and started life as high polish stainless original (large size) Ruger Vaquero's in .45 Colt.
This is how Gary describes them:
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This gun is so unusual it was the hit of the show at the Festival Of The West cowboy show. This little ‘muff gun" is our Gamblers Classic. Probably the smallest Vaquero® ever built, this little vest pocket revolver would have made old Doc Holliday a happy man. Our Gamblers Classic comes with a 2½" barrel and a super comfortable little grip. It comes in stainless steel or our Black Chromex finish with your choice of black or white pearl grips. A full 6 shot cylinder, in the Colt style, a modified hammer, along with gambler style engraving, and a jeweled hammer and trigger make this beauty a real eye catcher. This Gamblers Classic is a true compact little beauty with no ejector rod housing and no hump on the right side. And the good part is it shoots as good as it looks. Each gun is shot in at 20 yards and guaranteed to be accurate. One of the Classiest little cowboy guns we’ve ever built is our Gamblers Classic.
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The previous owner never fired them and has been trying to sell them for the past three or four years. He finally lowered the price to the point where I couldn't turn them down!
If you want one of these, you send your old style Vaquero to Reeder Custom Guns along with a pile of money and you wait six or eight months...
While they're not exactly my style, I did have fun putting the shadow box together and they look pretty good in my gun room! 
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Very nice.
Just curious, how much is in "a pile of money"?
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AWESOME pair !!
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I like the black pearls!
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Very nice.
Just curious, how much is in "a pile of money"?
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Currently, Reeder charges $1495 to do his thing on one large frame Vaquero that YOU supply. Even without the cost of the gun, that’s a pile of money in my book.
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Currently, Reeder charges $1495 to do his thing on one large frame Vaquero that YOU supply. Even without the cost of the gun, that’s a pile of money in my book.
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It is but, on this one time trip through life, if one wants something like that and it brings them joy, they I say fully go for it! I like the look of those. I've got an old model taking up space in the safe...not sure that's my thing...yet...maybe...who knows...
Anyway, thanks for posting! Those are beautiful little Doc guns.
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Currently, Reeder charges $1495 to do his thing on one large frame Vaquero that YOU supply. Even without the cost of the gun, that’s a pile of money in my book.
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Yes sir... and I bet your book is bigger than mine too. 
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Those are mighty nice shootin' irons there, pardner!!
Thanks for sharing with us,
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I like the shadow box.
A nice couple additions might be a "jailhouse" style skeleton key and some brothel tokens.
(Depending on your sense of humor!)
All available cheap on eBay.
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There an't that much money in the world !!
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Currently, Reeder charges $1495 to do his thing on one large frame Vaquero that YOU supply. Even without the cost of the gun, that’s a pile of money in my book.
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I’d love to see you whip those out at a SASS cowboy match. Talk about raising a stir. Take it a step further and shoot them in the gunfighter category. If they are good to 20 yards, they’d be fine. Love the guns.
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Very nice.
Just curious, how much is in "a pile of money"?
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Mr Reeder has enough customers to keep him busy. His style is not necessarily my style, I like a bit less flash.
However, I do like the shadow box display made by the OP.
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I wonder abiut the functionality of the hammer contour. Is it good or impractical? Shadow box is cool, but shoot them. Nobody cares about Vaquero collection value...shoot them.
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Nice job Dave. I should have made that show.
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Nice job Dave. I should have made that show.
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Thanks Leonard!
It's a tough call when there are two events on the same day. I hate missing the Davison gun gun show, but I was committed to helping a few people at my club swap meet and didn't have a choice. There were several estate collections offered that hadn't seen the light of day in decades. A lot of goodies changed hands and both the sellers and buyers were pleased with the outcome.
I hope you made out good at Davison!
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Comment on shadow box
The "Dead Man's Hand" that Hickock held when shot was two pair, aces and eights, not a full house, in case that's what you were trying to do.
Still like the shadow box, very nice display.
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You need a sign on that box,
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No, that's "I hope he gave you a kiss afterwards" kind of money! lol
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The "Dead Man's Hand" that Hickock held when shot was two pair, aces and eights, not a full house, in case that's what you were trying to do.
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That's true. AA88J is what I understand it was, suits unknown without research.
Gary Reeder is VERY popular with the SASS crowd. Those guns are gorgeous and would definitely be fun to shoot at a SASS match. My two main match guns are the older style Vaqueros and I can imagine Gary Reeder doing that to them!
WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!
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The "Dead Man's Hand" that Hickock held when shot was two pair, aces and eights, not a full house, in case that's what you were trying to do.
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Thanks! Easy fix, I’ll flip the eight of diamonds over.
That shows you how much of a gambler I am! 
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Why Buy a Reeder Custom?
You don't buy a Gary Reeder Custom as an investment, you buy it for yourself because he makes something you desire and can't buy in the commercial market. You pay for the pleasure of having a unique gun that gives you a great deal of satisfaction, and may even have your name as the serial number. As a result, they are not readily liquidate-able in a speedy manner. You got a beautiful pair there, you should fire them at least once.
I have a S&W that he did for me that I cannot buy from S&W, namely a Model 57 3", round butt. It gives me so much satisfaction that my wife wanted an equivalent, and Gary did a Model 28 for her in the same manner. I should mention both have been fired! 
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The "Dead Man's Hand" that Hickock held when shot was two pair, aces and eights, not a full house, in case that's what you were trying to do.
Still like the shadow box, very nice display.
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You are correct. Here's a photo I took some years ago, using an S&W Model 1, 2nd issue.
John
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