Double Barrel Doves

Double Barrel Doves

I swore to lock up the 28-gauge Perazzi, safe and sound, and return it when asked. But I simply could not, would not, make this trip without her. I have always been lucky with dogs and shotguns. Or maybe just unlucky with everything else. In any event, one evening the...
A Lesser-Known Name Find

A Lesser-Known Name Find

I suspect that most non-shooters view gun trading as some sort of mental or emotional deviance. Gun trading isn’t universal, but it does appear in enough humans to be readily recognizable to those who are not afflicted with the malady. I think it’s kind of like a...
Connecticut Shotgun RSP

Connecticut Shotgun RSP

Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company makes and markets a stunning array of shotguns including the A-10, Revelation, Inverness, RBL, Model 21 in an over/under version as well as the traditional side-by-side and a dedicated modular competition gun that it calls the...
Confessions of a Shotgun Scribe

Confessions of a Shotgun Scribe

One of Ed Zern’s hilarious books is titled How I Got This Way. As you would expect, the book relates the mishaps and misadventures that caused him to develop into the mildly warped personality that wrote some of the funniest outdoor stuff ever written.  I ran across...
UnMistakably British

UnMistakably British

Cleverly designed and impeccably made, the guns and rifles, clothing and accoutrements of British craftsmen have influenced sport the world over. We can be justifiably proud that we are the greatest melting-pot nation in history. Our willingness to absorb...
From A to Zoli: Rethinking the Over/Under Shotgun

From A to Zoli: Rethinking the Over/Under Shotgun

Many, if not most of us, would be glad to take the helm of a company owned by our family, certainly that is if good ’ol dad—or perhaps it was mom—had kept the business humming along quite nicely over the years. On top of the money rolling in, if the family operation...
The Boy Never Had a Chance

The Boy Never Had a Chance

Willie Boy made his literary debut in the final chapter of The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever.  The chapter was titled “ A Small Southern Tale,” and it chronicled the comings and goings of a single family of Georgia bobwhite quail hunters in the period following...