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Archive: February 2018

James Purdey & Sons Establishes a New American Presence with Griffin & Howe at the Hudson Farm Club…And Begins Production of a Phenomenal .410 Hammer Gun

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns
Tags: george juer, Griffin & Howe, griffin & howe's hudson farm, Guy Bignell, james purdey & sons, purdey 410 hammer gun, purdey hammer gun

For American lovers of James Purdey & Sons shotguns recent developments deliver some good news and some bad.

Starting with the good, London best-gun maker James Purdey & Sons has declared Griffin & Howe’s sporting-gun nirvana the Hudson Farm Club its new American Northeast base of operations. That means all you need to do is make your way to Andover, New Jersey, shoot one of the Purdey demonstration guns of your choice at Hudson Farms’ rifle range or sporting clays course and swipe your credit card to consummate the venture.

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Griffin & Howe Converts an Old Dairy Farm into the Shooting Grounds of the Future

Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Destinations

Jacking up a 13-bedroom cabin from its foundation to retrofit underground luxury men’s and ladies’ locker rooms, fitness center and sauna within a nine-month timetable shows the real chops of Griffin & Howe CEO, Steve Polanish and his predecessor Guy Bignell as their Hudson Farm sporting grounds fulfills its new calling: “How a Legacy is Crafted.”

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How Living With a Labrador Retriever in Brooklyn, New York Inspired Me to Start Girls With Gundogs

Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Written by Lee Lee Milner
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: dogs

Two years ago, I was living in an apartment in the basement of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I was working in private practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and spending most of my weekends driving two hours both ways to upstate New York to do something in the outdoors. I was tired and burnt out and when a relationship I had been in ended, I needed a change. Little did I know that the catalyst for that change would be my seven-year-old black Labrador, Goose.

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