Aged In Oak
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Found what I was thinking of... unfortunately, I had the story a little bit garbled. Here are the details as written on http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/airborne_combat_engineer/2007/05/medusa_revolver.html.
Gary Reeder's version
Gary Reeder picked up the rights, the tooling, and the remaining parts from his friend and business associate Roger Hunziker (the Roger in Phillips and Rogers). He produced a similar revolver called the Skorpion (renamed for legal reasons) in his own shops. It is a K frame sized, round butt gun with a slab sided 4" target grade barrel. After producing about 40, he reportedly discontinued production because customers didn't heed his warning not to use +P ammo, which produced pressures high enough to potentially cause damage, resulting in returns for repairs. (The original Medusa didn't have this restriction.)
Bottom line: looks like I was wrong about possible re-release plans! Oh well... too bad, would've been a cool wheelgun to have!
Gary Reeder's version
Gary Reeder picked up the rights, the tooling, and the remaining parts from his friend and business associate Roger Hunziker (the Roger in Phillips and Rogers). He produced a similar revolver called the Skorpion (renamed for legal reasons) in his own shops. It is a K frame sized, round butt gun with a slab sided 4" target grade barrel. After producing about 40, he reportedly discontinued production because customers didn't heed his warning not to use +P ammo, which produced pressures high enough to potentially cause damage, resulting in returns for repairs. (The original Medusa didn't have this restriction.)
Bottom line: looks like I was wrong about possible re-release plans! Oh well... too bad, would've been a cool wheelgun to have!
