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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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Cole Gunsmithing, Legendary for Its Italian Shotgun Expertise, Embraces the German Blaser F3

Tuesday, January 08, 2019
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns
Tags: beretta shotguns, blaser f16, blaser f3 shotgun, blaser shotguns, cole gunsmithing, sporting clays

Up until a few weeks ago Rich Cole’s stellar career was 100-percent Italian shotguns. Starting in 1979 he joined Beretta USA as a five-dollar-per-hour apprentice gunsmith. The job included extensive time at the mothership in Gardone, Italy learning the finer points of repairing and enhancing Beretta sporting shotguns.

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