It’s official: Longthorne shotguns are now available in the U.S. – bringing to American fine-gun afficionados the most advanced break-opens to appear from England in the past century.
John Herkowitz, owner of Pacific Sporting Arms in Azusa, California with a secondary location in Walled Lake, Michigan, took the first-move advantage in becoming Longthorne’s exclusive American agent after watching the gunmaker evolve over the past few years.
Turn back the clock to 2016 at a cocktail reception in a posh London suburb. Scotsman Grant Buchan was talking about his desire to build “a true Scottish gun” with the sales manager of a best British gunmaker. “He tried to take the wind out of me and said, you’re dreaming, you will never do it,” recalled Mr. Buchan. “Here I was, a Scottish guy with a small gunsmithing business and a dream of making my own best gun.”
That’s when Mr. Buchan experienced his David-and-Goliath moment: “I told him straight to his face, we’ll see”
Easton Maryland, Jan 9, 2020 – RETAY ARMS LTD. STI. of Konya Turkey announced the release of the ALL NEW Gordion series of semi-automatic shotguns in the United States.
The Gordion (named for the famed town located 80 miles Southwest of the Turkish capital where Alexander The Great found his destiny to become the ruler of Asia ) was released in Europe in early 2019.
The Gordion has met with overwhelming acclaim with hunters across Europe and now it has arrived in the United States ready to make its mark.
Award-winning TriStar Arms is pleased to announce the arrival of its new Trinity line of over/under shotguns. These beautiful shotguns offer CNC-machined aluminum or steel receivers hand detailed with old-world craftsmanship.
Both the lightweight-aluminum frame and 24-carat gold inlayed steel-frame models feature deeply checkered, oil-finished Turkish walnut furniture, fiber-optic front sights, and five Beretta Mobil chokes (SK, IC, M, IM, and F).
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation‘s (SSSF) Vision 2020 campaign raised $215,465 thanks to the teams and donors who participated in 2019.
Total impact for the campaign amounts to almost $107,000 in cash grants going to Scholastic Clay Target and Scholastic Action Shooting Program teams along over $320,000 being donated by SSSF to participating team’s MidwayUSA Foundation endowment accounts!
The all-new Renegauge from Savage proves that you don’t have to answer to anything but your instincts. You don’t half-step into anything. Neither does Savage Arms. We went all-in creating the next generation, American-Made semi-auto built to take everything your world of hunting can throw at it and perform–without fail and without compromise.
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