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Author: Irwin Greenstein

Six Semi-Automatic Sporters for $600 or Less

Monday, January 29, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns

Turkish-made semi-automatic shotguns have gained in popularity through their rock-bottom prices and wide-spread availability. Just about any gun store in America will have a model or two (or more) that appeals to budget-minded wing and clays enthusiasts, while the online selection seems almost boundless. In addition to routinely getting the job done for diehard shooters, these semi-automatics are often a cost-effective go-to choice for first-time shooters dipping their toe in the water, or as a knock-about when the weather turns foul in the field.

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DU’s Campus Waterfowl spotlights collegiate conservationists 

Friday, January 06, 2023
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: News
[caption id="attachment_4802" align="alignnone" width=""]Campus Waterfowl spent a morning of duck season with members of DU’s Michigan State University Chapter.[/caption]

Popular online waterfowl hunting content creator keeps growing

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jan. 4, 2023 – With a presence on all major social media platforms, Campus Waterfowl showcases the lifestyle of collegiate waterfowlers and shows the outdoor industry that these students should not be overlooked.

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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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CZ-USA’s Dave Miller Helps Four High-School Kids Establish a Shotgunning Guinness World Record

Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns
Tags: aim (academics, cz 1012 semiautomatic shotgun, czusa, guinness world record, integrity, marksmanship) youth program, pheasants forever, quail forever, scholastic clay target program, sctp

Setting a new Guinness Official World Record feels like a bridge too far for most of us. But Dave Miller of gunmaker CZ-USA made it a dream-come-true for the four high-school students on his team who established a world record for the most number of clay targets shot in 12 hours by a team of five.

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Pointer Shotguns’ Big Selection of Affordable Youth Models is Quietly Drawing More Kids into Wing and Clays Shooting

Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns
Tags: legacy sports international, pointer shotguns, scholastic clay target program, scholastic shooting sports foundation, usa high school clay target league, usa shooting youth programs, youth shotguns

Looking back to April 2019,there were 26,678 student clays-shooting competitors from 1,042 high school teams across 25 states who participated in the USA High School Clay Target League.

That program isn’t the only game in town for youngsters looking to become the next George Digweed, Kim Rhode, Bill McGuire or Anthony Matarese, Jr.

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Sporting Clays Magic at Pintail Point

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Women Shooters

An American boy’s rite of passage is often marked by the watershed gift of a shotgun once owned by his father or grandfather. In the case of 16-year-old Paulena Prager, though, that defining moment arrived for the young woman when she received a shotgun owned by her mother.

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