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Author: Irwin Greenstein

Shooting Michael McIntosh’s Legendary AYA at the Southern Side by Side

Sunday, July 10, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns

The 12th Annual Southern Side by Side Championship & Exhibition Spring Classic provided an extraordinary opportunity to shoot a round robin of highly coveted shotguns, of which Michael McIntosh’s AYA Nº 2 was certainly the most prominent.
Conceivably the best writer about fine shotguns of his generation, Mr. McIntosh forged a path of elegant and insightful books and magazine articles that made his readers gush with pride as fellow shotgun owners.

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Ptarmigan in Canada

Friday, July 01, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotgun Journal

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Crow Hunting

Friday, July 01, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotgun Journal

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Sporting Clays on the Bourbon Trail: Part VIII, Keswick Hall and Central Virginia Sporting Clays

Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Destinations

The itinerary was ambitious – eight days, seven posh sporting clays venues, 13 flats of shells and eight bourbon distilleries. Porsche had loaned us a 2011 Cayenne S SUV powered by a 400-horsepower V8 behemoth, while Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Co. supplied one of their marvelous A-10 American sidelock over/under shotguns. This is the final installment.

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Exclusive: Forthcoming Zoli VCS Combines High-Rib Sporter With Traditional Shotgun

Monday, June 06, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns

Zoli is continuing its blistering momentum this year with a new high-rib shotgun that actually combines two models in one.

The shotgun is yet another example of Zoli’s advanced engineering that seems to have found extra traction this year in the US market, exemplified by Zoli’s own record-breaking sales of the revolutionary Bilanx since its formal introduction in January.

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Sporting Clays on the Bourbon Trail: Part VII, Primland – The Most Beautiful Sporting Clays Course in America

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Destinations

The road up to Primland could pass as a crazy dream.

Out of the blue, someone gives you a $93,000 Porsche Cayenne S that you’re driving up a switchback logger’s road dynamited into a mountain side. Stowed in the back among the luggage and flats of 12-gauge shells is the super-cool A-10 American sidelock shotgun. The Porsche Cayenne S is fierce, fearless – 20-inch tires spewing road dust for mile after mile through computer-controlled all-wheel drive.

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