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Why a Young Shooter’s Coach and Her Family Rallied Around Perazzi

Tuesday, September 07, 2021
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: ava cauley, bridge creek clays south georgia youth shooting club, brookwood school, bunker trap, chris batha, cole gunsmithing, junior olympic trap shooting championship, mike simpson, national scholastic shooting sports foundation all scholastic team, pacific sporting arms, perazzi, perazzi high tech, perazzi mx8, perazzi shotguns, scholastic clay target program, the ranges at oakfield, thomasville georgia

Ava Cauley and her father Kevin often razz each other about which of their Perazzis is better. But all kidding aside, coached by legendary shooting instructor and Perazzi advocate Mike Simpson, the three of them have centered on Perazzi to shape the 16-year-old into a world-class, bunker-trap competitor.

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The Different Types of Sporting Shotguns

Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Written by Fred Bohm
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: sageandbraker, shotguns for women

Shotguns are one of the most versatile weapons out there. They are a favorite choice of hunters, and with the right choice of ammunition, can be used to hunt everything from upland birds to big whitetail bucks. Shotguns can also be used as home defense weapons. But with so many uses, a lot of people are not aware that there are actually many different types of shotguns. 

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The Krieghoff K-80 Victoria Brings 12-Gauge Pedigree and Performance to Women Clays Shooters

Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Written by Deborah K. McKown
Categories: Women Shooters

At this point, shotguns for female wing and clays shooters are really nothing new. But until Krieghoff’s introduction of its new K-80 Victoria, what most of its competitors lacked is exactly what the German premium gunmaker brings to the 12-gauge marketplace: pedigree, both in terms of superior workmanship associated with the brand, and social accolades through its support of women shooters who serve as role models for recreational and aspiring competitive shooters.

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Women Who Build Legacies in South Georgia Quail Country

Tuesday, August 06, 2019
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: anna v outdoors, anna van nostrand, cz shotguns, cz supreme field 20, czusa, georgia quail hunting, quail country plantation

Among the pine trees of Quail Country Plantation, Anna Van Nostrand, CZ over/under broken open across her shoulder, kneels next to her five-year-old daughter Hallie Jo “Bird Dog Tater,” talking to her about the bobwhite quail she holds that was recently downed by her mother.

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The New Krieghoff K-20 Victoria Empowers Women at Wing and Clays

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Written by Deborah K. McKown
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: krieghoff k20 victoria, krieghoff shotguns, shotguns for women

If you ever shot a Krieghoff K-20 Parcours you might walk away thinking that this 20-gauge over/under is the best handling shotgun, period. That could be attributed to the Parcours approach that pairs barrels lighter than the standard model with the low-profile K-20 action. For ladies, the K-20 Parcours now gets even better with the new purpose-designed Krieghoff K-20 Victoria.

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How to Find the Holy Grail of Woodcock Shotguns

Friday, August 31, 2018
Written by Lars Jacob
Categories: Lars Jacob

The Holy Grail of shotguns can mean many things. The driven bird shooter desires a break action with long barrels like a clays gun but stocked like a game gun. Dove shooters love their nimble sub-gauge auto loaders especially with the three round capacity. And of course the waterfowler needs the recoil taming and durability of a synthetic stocked cannon. In the Northern region our early bird seasons include a unique bird, the American woodcock. With their “here today, gone tomorrow” migrations, this article will discuss finding the perfect woodcock gun. 

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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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The Quest of McKenna Quinn to Make the Perfect Upland Shirt for Women

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Women Shooters
Tags: mckenna quinn, shotguns for women, women and shotguns, womens hunting clothes

Don’t be shocked to see Amber Haynes wear ritzy Christian Louboutin heels with upland field pants. As the only child of a Houston oil-and-gas guy, he brought his young daughter along on the Texas quail and pheasant hunts that ultimately became her fashion muse.

“I’ve been tagging along with my dad hunting since I was little,” said Ms. Haynes.

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Let’s Extend a Big Welcome to Women Hunters

Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Written by Paul Anderson
Categories: Paul Anderson

A few months ago I sent out a newsletter for Detail Company Adventures, in which we delivered the destination hunting trips offered by our new Big Game/Fishing consultant, Larysa Switlyk. The newsletter is not what I want to talk about today; the replies I received are the real story.

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My Wingshooting Bucket List

Saturday, July 01, 2017
Written by Paul Anderson
Categories: Paul Anderson

In my early years of bird hunting I started a bucket list by pouring over the magazines by my father’s Lazy Boy. I would memorize item numbers in Lyon Country Supply, and dream of the day I had my own real bird dog. Dreams of skidding points, and huge Canadian geese in the decoys, banded green heads and woodcock over a Llewellyn or any other bird hunt I could read about and absorb.

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