Shotgun Summer
Follow along as we share the things we’re working on to become better shooters afield. We’re just a month away from bird hunting and practice can only help when it comes to being more effective in the uplands.
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The Streak
Rio the setter is holding just below a lip of pitted volcanic stone a few paces up this 60 degree slope. We’ve climbed for over two hours to get to this point. The entire trek from the bottom the dogs have been trailing and repositioning. I can tell by Rio’s stature that she has trapped…
16 versus 20
In recent years there’s been a resurgence in popularity of 16 gauge shotguns. It’s tough to say exactly how much impact it has had on bird hunting and shotgunning markets. But maybe the bigger question is why? We set out at our local sporting clays course one recent morning to solve the mysteries of the…
The Difference Between Shooting and Hunting
Around the age of 12 I went on my first bird shoot in the state of Ohio. One snowy, winter morning my dad and a few family friends drove to a local shooting preserve. I had just gotten my first shotgun for Christmas, a single-barrel break-action 410. We rode to fields of manicured milo separated in…
The Dreaded Shooting Bag
I think the level of exertion at sporting clays courses should extend beyond the trigger finger. The name “sporting clays” implies a certain level of physical activity. But, a number of courses have paths for vehicles and even golf carts for transporting shooters and their gear from one station to the next. Distances between each…
Back to the Range
It feels good to have a shotgun back in hand. The local clays ranges are beginning to reopen and after a number of months of lockdown it was past time to knock off the rust. It seems like there is never anyone on the skeet range — sporting clays, trap and five-stand are the games…
Testing the Mossberg Silver Reserve Shotgun
After the unboxing a few weeks back, we finally got the Mossberg Silver Reserve Shotgun to the range for some testing. And it’s a good thing, because these guys haven’t tried breaking clays in a hot minute and it shows. Doug, Dan and Steve all burn some powder to test how this Mossberg comes to…
