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A Break in the Action Ryan Doughty
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Our days are busy. Professional, family and personal obligations fill our schedules. You’re invited to take A Break in the Action of your day and escape to a place filled with sights of highly figured walnut and rich, vibrant case-color hardening. Intoxicating scents of wood smoke in the fall from a perfectly laid fire and spent shotshells fill the air. The only deals we broker are for new-to-us shotguns and our only appointments are to chilly mornings and impatient bird dogs. Here, our currency is memories and we consider ourselves wealthy.
The goal here is simple, to provide a place to escape, a place to learn, a place to reminisce and a place to relax - be it through our podcast or social sites. Our focus will reliably be on vintage and modern shotguns, best-in-quality gear, accessories, and the experiences that compliment the sporting lifestyle.
Our days are busy… Take A Break in the Action.
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Humbled by helice at Prairie Wildlife
The clay target shooting sports are generally very linear games. Targets leave the machine and, for the most part, follow a set trajectory to the ground. There are variations of course, trap introduces an oscillator or wobble, skeet has the shooter move to vary the angle and necessary lead, a chandel target in a round of sporting clays changes speed as it falls from the peak of its arc, and the occasional rabbit surprises with a bounce. Generally, though, targets follow a known and reliable path. Trap, skeet, sporting clays, and their varieties are civilized and academic… helice, on the other hand, is more like the wild, wild west.
In this episode we are going to take a look at the origins of helice and how it is shot. We will also focus on the amazing Prairie Wildlife in West Point, Mississippi. This incredible property is a real sportsman's paradise.
Prairie Wildlife
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Best Double-Barrel Shotguns $1,000 - $3,000
Listener requested! An overdue sequel to the 'Best Shotguns $1,000' from a few years back - in this episode I have pulled in two pros from the Orvis Gunroom, Greg Carpiniello and Connor Carson. The three of us offer up 20-30 new and used shotgun models that you should be sure to check out if you are buying in this range.
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John Rigby and Co.
Here are two things you might not know about the legendary shotgun and rifle maker John Rigby and Co. The company is actually older than the United States of America and originally hailed Dublin, Ireland.
My guest today is Marc Newton. Marc has been the managing director for John Rigby since 2013. He graciously accepted an invitation to discuss the company’s enduring legacy since its founding in the 18th century!
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Flying with your shotgun
Getting away to hunt can be as easy as hitting the other side of your state, maybe a road trip or, flying to the other side of our country or beyond it’s borders.
We are going to spend some time on this last version today. Experienced travelers develop special skills when they are frequently in and out of airports. I fly several times a year and have developed, or copied, some time saving practices and habits that significantly lower the stresses that can come along with air travel. One nuance of air travel that I am completely unfamiliar with is traveling with my shotgun. This year has several opportunities on the calendar for fly in hunting/shooting trips. As I have begun researching flying with my shotgun – I thought it might make for an interesting and informative episode for listeners planning their own adventures. So today we are going to dig in to what you need to consider when you decide to bring your shotgun along.
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Shotgun Stories: AJ DeRosa
'What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places I think about and smile… they are because shotguns are. Without them I would have been empty. They have made my life full.'
-Gene Hill
Shotguns are woven into almost every aspect of my life. They have connected me with some of my dearest friends, they offer a shared pastime of shooting and hunting with my wife and daughters and have looked on during many successful and unsuccessful days in the field with my dad. The dogs I have owned snap to attention when I so much as handle one and become fully electrified when they notice me sleeving a shotgun.
For many, this steel and wood tool has transcended its original intended purpose.
My guest today is AJ DeRosa, creator of Project Upland. AJ is the first guest in what I hope will be an interesting and recurring series that I am calling “shotgun stories” where we will hear from my guests about the guns that they have owned and shot with and hear some of the memories that they have made with them.
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Used shotgun buyers guide with Gregg Elliott and Phil Bourjaily
There is one question that I get asked more often than any other. Listeners want help or advice on buying used shotguns… Is it smart to buy a shotgun online? Is it safe to buy from an individual? What should I look for in determining a used shotgun's condition and what red flags should I be aware of? These are just a few of the general questions that are worth considering buying a new bird gun for next season or upgrading your sporting clays shotgun. Gregg Elliott and Phil Bourjaily join the show to discuss a few points important points to consider. Both have been on the podcast before and each of them spends tons of time investigating, using, and writing about shotguns - new and pre-owned.
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