It was in late September 2008, at Griffin & Howe’s Hudson Farm, that the idea of a “family tree” for a Boswell Shotgun first came about.
Shotguns
There are two challenges to finding a great shotgun — fit and suitability.
The shotguns section of Shotgun Life is dedicated to helping you recognize the perfect shotgun (that you’ll want to keep for the rest of your life, and then hand down to your family for generations to come.)
For some people, finding a great shotgun is simply love at first sight. For others, a great shotgun grows on them — and they find themselves down in the basement cleaning it for absolutely no other reason than just to be in its company.
But for every shotgun owner who falls in love with their pride-and-joy, there are teams of engineers and craftsmen toiling away behind the scenes to bring your gun to fruition.
As you’ll see, shotguns are generally designed for a particular sport. Some shotguns have composite stocks and fore-ends to withstand the travails of duck hunting. Then there are single-shot trap guns with high ribs that help you intercept rising targets. And skeet shooters find that their beavertail fore-end is particularly adept at bringing about a smooth, quick swing.
So let the search begin. Here is what you’ll find in our shotgun section…
- Shotguns for Clays and Wingshooting
- Shotgun Actions
- Break Actions
- Over/Under
- Side-by-Side
- Single-Barrel Shotgun
- Semiautomatics
- Pumps
- Skeet Shotguns
- Trap Shotguns
- WaterFowl Shotguns
- Upland Shotguns
Shotgun Lust
It’s an autumn afternoon in southern New Jersey and I’m in a luxurious tent browsing the best shotguns, when something different, beautiful, stunning catches my attention.
Exclusive: Details of the Stunning, New Caesar Guerini Apex
First the black lab shows up at the door, then the gunsmith, who escorts me through the utilitarian building into a workshop where the president of shotgun maker Caesar Guerini, Wes Lang, has a file in hand working on a customer’s barrel.
An Extraordinary Week With Beretta Traveling Through Half a Millennia, Part 3
In this third and final installment, Michael Sabbeth takes us where few visitors have ever been: Beretta’s seminal 15th century Ome forging house. This is where the company still makes Damascus barrels and accessories. Afterwards, Michael takes us on a tour of Beretta’s premium wineries.
An Extraordinary Week With Beretta Traveling Through Half a Millennia, Part 2
In this second installment of our three-part series, Michael Sabbeth gives us an “X-ray in words” of Beretta’s SV 10 fine shotguns (while capturing that Beretta magic).
An Extraordinary Week With Beretta Traveling Through Half a Millennia
In this first of a three-part series, we arrive at the Beretta headquarters in Italy, where Michael Sabbeth queues up his story about the exceptional SO 10 with a brief company history. See first hand why Franco Beretta told Michael “The SO 10 is the highest expression of the Beretta spirit.”
The Fine Firearms Find of the Century
“Call this a tangled web with a happy ending, a story that unfolds like the plot of a Russian novel toward a conclusion in which one of the most venerable Belgian gunmakers and the most venerable American gunmaker undergo a renaissance and in the process bring back to life one of the more visionary guns of the twentieth century - invented by a Belgian maker whose relative obscurity belies his genius.”
— Michael McIntosh4 Great Days at the Southern Side by Side Fall Classic
A new tradition started in the fabled chronicles of the shotgun sports.
The first Southern Side by Side Fall Classic took place over three days at the Back Woods Quail Club in Georgetown, South Carolina — with a spectacular pheasant tower shoot as the day-before opener.
At the helm of the new event was the steady hand of Bill Kempffer, the guiding force behind the Southern Side by Side Spring Classic held the past nine years every April at his Deep River Sporting Clays and Shooting School in Sanford, North Carolina.
Robert James and The Point of Impact
Robert James pulls no punches: “I’m really upset with the shooting industry, including myself,” he says.
What could possibly rile the likes of Mr. James, a 75-year-old master stock maker?
The Most Expensive Blaser F3 in the World?
At $50,200 this custom Blaser shotgun may be the most expensive F3 ever produced by the company.
When you consider the top F3 Imperial lists for nearly $29,000, this custom F3, which we call One-of-One because of its trigger-guard inscription, becomes worthy of recognition.
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