Gary Reeder Skorpion

[Ric]

Does anyone have any personal exp. with this gun.
I am thinking about getting one with my bonus check.
19 different calibers from one cylinder :cool:

http://www.reedercustomguns.com/revolvers/skorpion.htm

[Standing Wolf]

This new beauty still features the ability to chamber as many cartridges but mainly will shoot, 38 special, 357 mag, 38 colt, 38 S&W, 9mm, 356 TSW, and 38 super, and all in one cylinder.

Looks like a reworked Smith & Wesson to me.

[Jim Watson]

.357 Magnum but "not intended for +P"????

I hope it is better than the original P&R conversions or the Medusa guns.

There have been some conversions of .357 Magnums - S&W 686s - to "9mm anything" with moon clips to hold 9x23, 9x19, and .38 Super instead of the trick P&R extractor. They are said to work pretty well - Richard Heinie likes his - but if you go back and shoot .38 or .357 in it the brass will be bulged beyond reloading.

A chamber that will handle multiple cartridges must be large enough for the biggest. There is bound to be some slop with the lesser rounds.

But $1395 is not a lot for something that weird, just to say you have one.

[SpaceCowboy]

You have to wonder how accurate a gun that "shoots anything" can really be. Didn't Colt have something like that, the survivor or something.....shot 9mm whatever. Didn't really take off though. Anyone remember?

[Erich]

Jim, I'd suspect that Gary means the hotter .357 rounds that sixgunners throw together. Reeder's loads for his proprietary cartuchos are astonishingly hot.

I wonder if he'd leave the engraving off for an extra $100.00 . . . . ;)

[Ky Larry]

I'd rather have this Skorpion. :D

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Subs/Skorpion.htm

P.S. It's got "Da Switch."

[Mannlicher]

Looks like a rich boy's toy. I see nothing practical about it. WAY too pricy.

[mec]

"I wonder if he'd leave the engraving off for an extra $100.00 . . . . "
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An often expressed sentiment.

He has a way of rushing things out to the gunwriters before the blue or "black cromex" is dry on them. He invented a 17 HMR with the wrong rifling twist and it was muy inaccurate. He guessed it would be really accurate with the correct rifling pitch.

One of his GNR leverguns went out to a gun writher with a handfull of ammuniton. the poor guy wrote it up along with a group of something over 4" at 50 yards.

[Erich]

Thanks, Mike; I didn't mean to be too much of a smart alec, but I'm glad to see others carry the same aesthetic sense as myself. :) And I want to say that I've heard people speak well of Reeder's stuff (over at sixgunner.com . . . ?) - I want to say that Taffin (who I consider to be pretty trustworthy) had nice things to say in print not to long ago about a "Long Colt" that Reeder put together.

Man, though, what a bad idea to rush something out to a reviewer! :uhoh:

[mec]

I didn't think you were being a smart alec. I thought you were hitting the hail right on the nead. Your dislike of the Francisco Bustamonte School of Engraving is widely shared.

[mec]

I didn't think you were being a smart alec. I thought you were hitting the hail right on the nead. Your dislike of the Francisco Bustamonte School of Engraving is widely shared.

[goon]

While I can congradulate these people for their creativity, I have to wonder what the point of such a gun is.
If you can't get your hands on 38 Special or .357 Mag in the US, you are doing something wrong.
Since you are already going to have one of those two with about three bazillion choices of brand, bullet weight, bullet style, and power lever between the cartridges, why would you want to use anything else?
Why use an anemic round like the old 38 colt and 38 S&W rounds when you can have a cheaper and more effective .38 SPL round in the chamber?
I work at a gun shop and I have only ever seen a couple boxes of 38 Super (even a few boxes of old .38 ACP). I have never seen even a single round of .356 TSW but there is a whole shelf full of .357 and .38 SPL and some more behind the counter.

I am thinking that the utility of this gun might be more imagined than real.