Reeder Custom Guns - I found an old picture of my gun “collection”

From when I was 14-15 yrs. old, I think. Most were stolen when I was 17. I still have the Remington 550. My father sold Grit papers door to door in the late 1940’s. He bought a Whizzer motorbike. A couple weeks later he slid it underneath a car on the street. He traded with a friend for the nearly new .22, a reputed good squirrel dog, and $7 cash. A princely sum. The dog is dead, money long spent, but I got the .22.

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especially for just a young man!

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The Remington 552 was a gift from my Grandfather as was the 5100 Stevens 16 ga. I actually purchased an EXACT replacement SxS many years later, patina and all. (They all got stolen) Only lacking a few drops of lead paint from where it from was drizzled, when they repainted the living room in the early 1950's.

Dad bought me the Ithaca M66 "Supersingle" .410 for my 10th CHristmas, it cost $38 on the tag. I figured he haggled it down a bit. Really a crappy little beast. Cast receiver with spring extractor that often hung. I traded buddies for the wartime Beretta 418 and the Crossman 454 CO2. The High Standard Longhorn was really Mom's. The Bearcat, FIE SA, Winchester 94, and Browning Sweet 16 were Dad's. But I shot them 100x more than he ever did.

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. . . a Mossberg 142K .22, a Savage 220A 28-ga, and was pursuing the cash for my Stevens 311A 16ga. I was the caretaker of my great-grandfather's little H&R nickle-plated break-open .32 revolver and my grandfather's Winchester 97 16-ga. That was it for quite a while until I received my first Ruger Single-Six at age 18. :-)

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I found an old picture of my gun “collection”

impressively good collection...

I sort of took over several of them...

At that age I owned . . .