When you’re offered the opportunity to spend a week with a bespoke English shotgun that bears the marque of Holland and Holland, the big question is where do you take it? For us the answer was obvious: Prospect Hall. With the old farmhouse all to ourselves the night before our upland adventure, we embark on a journey of reverence for beautiful shotguns, heroes long gone and birds flushing from the tall grass on a splendid Indian summer morning. Read it at http://www.shotgunlife.com.

Antonio Zoli’s New “Economic Stimulus Package” Provides Huge Discounts to American Shooters on the Medal-Winning, Competition Z Sport

Brescia, Italy and Rochester, New York – Feb. 4, 2010 –  Antonio Zoli announced today its “Economic Stimulus Package” that allows American shotgun enthusiasts to get $1,000 off the price of a new Z Sport competition shotgun with the trade-in of any working firearm.

Customers need only place an order directly with Zoli North America by calling 585-394-1271, and a new Z Sport shotgun will be shipped to their local dealer.

Any dealer can participate and any working firearm will be accepted regardless of make, model or year. Zoli will ship to any legitimate FFL dealer in the U.S.

Orders will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. The Z Sport is available in 12, 20 or 28 gauge with 28, 30 or 32 inch barrels. Right and left hand stocks are available as well as adjustable combs.

With an established history of international championships to its credit, the Italian-made Zoli Z-Sport has repeatedly ranked in the U.S. as one of the best values in over/under shotguns for both competition and recreational shooters.

Standard features include:

• Forged steel Boss-locking action typically found on shotguns costing twice the price.
• Zoli’s famous high-velocity competition barrels made to exacting specifications for consistent patterns.
• Record proof at over 90,000 psi.
• Balanced on the hinge pin for superior handling dynamics.
• A 5-year Z Gun Warranty – annual service not required.

Trade in any working firearm today and take delivery of a new Z Sport shotgun for $4,300 – or $1,000 off the retail price.

 This special promotion is a limited time offer so act now.

 For more information call Antonio Zoli North America at 585-394-1271 or visit http://www.zoli.it

Zoli has been building world-class shotguns and rifles since 1948 in the Brescia Region of Italy.

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Blixt & Co. is the only provider of traditional English-driven shoots in the U.S. After a successful 2009 first season, Blixt has released its 2010 Syndicate Schedule.

The beauty of the Blixt Syndicate is that you can purchase individual pegs, enabling you to participate with a team of guns. These pegs can be used at the Lazy Triple Creek Ranch in Newdale, Idaho (near Jackson Hole, Wyoming) or internationally at the Ashcombe Estate in Wiltshire England or the La Nava estate in La Mancha Spain.

Shotgun Life ran a beautiful piece on Blixt’s inaugural season complete with slide show. You can read the story at http://www.shotgunlife.com/Places-to-Shoot/traditional-english-driven-shoots-come-to-the-big-hole-mountains-of-idaho.html .

For more information on this exclusive opportunity, please visit Blixt at http://www.blixtco.com.

The Shot Show returned to Las Vegas this year and as an industry-only event we’re here to report on what shotguns made the grade. We had the opportunity to shoot some shotguns in the dessert and scour the show floor. Check out our mini-reviews and new product wrap-up. It’s all at Shotgun Life at http://www.shotgunlife.com/ . Just look for the landmark billboard “Welcome to Las Vegas.”

As Industry’s First Online Magazine, Shotgun Life Helps Advertisers Cut Through Internet Clutter With Effective Search Engine Optimization 

Pikesville, MD – Jan. 18, 2010 – Shotgun Life (http://www.shotgunlife.com), the first online magazine dedicated to the best in wing and clays shooting, marks its one-year anniversary with five major shotgun manufacturers becoming new advertisers.

In the past 30 days alone, Shotgun Life signed on Blaser USA, Fausti USA, Ithaca Gun Company, Krieghoff International and Antonio Zoli North America.

These makers of fine shotguns join Shotgun Life’s original charter advertisers including Classic Upland Supply, Electronic Shooters Protection, Griffin & Howe, Ivory Beads, Kick-EEZ and Randolph Engineering.

“Makers of fine shotguns and their customers have for so many years enjoyed the rare luxury of being served by several upscale magazines,” said Irwin Greenstein, Publisher of Shotgun Life. “Even so, we have clearly proven that the marketplace has been starving for quality editorial and glossy aesthetics in a dynamic, online publication.”

The Shotgun Life technology platform is designed from the ground up for search engine optimization. With more clay and wingshooters relying on the Internet for product information, Shotgun Life’s stories often appear high in the search results, helping enthusiasts cut through the typical gun-for-sale clutter that proliferates on the Internet.

In addition to the online magazine, Shotgun Life publishes two free e-letters whose mission is to educate clays shooters. The Shotgun Life OSP 3-Minute Coach is distributed every weekday with shooting tips from Gil & Vicki Ash, owners of the renown OSP Shooting School. The e-letter is used for direct marketing to sell OSP’s full line of instructional products and services.

Every Wednesday, the Shotgun Life E-Letter features tutorials from world-class clays instructors such as Jack Bart, Phil Kiner, George Lehr, Anthony Matarese, Gary Phillips, Joe Rankin, Jim Sarkauskas, Bob Uknalis, John Woolley and others.

When it comes to quality editorial, Shotgun Life has attracted some of the best writers. Among them are Chris Batha, Al Hague, Jennifer L.S. Pearsall, Michael Sabbeth, Jerry Sinkovec and Nick Sisley.

“Shotgun Life’s total coverage of upscale, recreational sporting clays has exceeded all the print magazines combined,” Greenstein said. “We are the only publication, whether it’s print or digital, to provide extensive coverage of both wingshooting and sporting clays – providing an integrated advertising and marketing venue for the industry.”

Shotgun Life also operates a forum that hosts organizations such as the NSSA, NSCA and the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance.

Media Contact:

Ryan Holmes

Bernard + Associates

(775) 323-6828

ryan@bernardandassociates.com

For advertising opportunities, please contact Bernard + Associates, Jeff Thruston,

(775) 323-6828 or at jeff@bernardandassociates.com

For more information about Shotgun Life, please visit http://www.shotgunlife.com/.

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Shotgun Life performs a Peer Review of the Krieghoff Pro Sporter clays target shotgun, and draws an analogy with an over-the-top BMW SUV. Does the Pro Sporter merit this distinction? Actually, yes… In this Peer Review, where everyday shooters get to try the shotgun and give their opinions, the unique Krieghoff Pro Sporter proved to be a winner. Find out why. Visit Shotgun Life at http://www.shotgunlife.com.

The NRA’s Heide Kaser writes about Elizabeth Lanier and her group of women shotgun shooters fondly known as the GRITS – shorthand for Girls Really into Shooting. In the January column called Shotgun Savvy, Heide talks about how Elizabeth is empowering women getting into the shotgun sports – including 72-year-old Sophie who received a 28-gauge shotgun for Mother’s Day.

Scroll down a bit on the Shotgun Life home page for Heide’s latest column. Please visit http://www.shotgunlife.com/.

At the Blue Creek Shooting Complex in Billings, Montana, each of the different rifle and pistol shooting disciplines has about a dozen shooting positions. They also have two different archery shooting courses and three dog training fields, each of them being different.

Blue Creek currently has two skeet fields overlain on two trap fields which will be expanded when the demand warrants it. The view from the trap and skeet fields is excellent for seeing the birds since it is mostly sky and a little of the low hills in the distance, way below the target trajectories. They really did a great job in the utilization of the land and the layout of the sporting clays course.

You can get a lot more info about Blue Creek by reading the January column of Jerry Sinkovec’s Favorite Destinations at http://www.shotgunlife.com.

The popular Italian gunmaker Fausti is rapidly expanding its U.S. dealer network. Shotgun Life tested 2 new field guns that will be in your local gun store. They are the Caledon over/under and the Dea Round Body, which is modeled after the classic English side-by-side. Both of these shotguns turned out to be surprising values. Check out the reviews at http://www.shotgunlife.com .

Shotgun Life has the first comprehensive review of the iPhone ClayTracker software for scoring sporting clays and 5-Stand. If you’re fed up with cumbersome clipboards and score sheets you may become a ClayTracker convert, like our contributing writer, Noe Roland. Noe put the ClayTracker through its paces at the unique Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays course. It’s a 125-acre abandoned limestone quarry – replete with all the old, ramshackle, cement buildings and quarry lakes. In some shots, the targets actually fly right through the holes in the walls of the buildings. Each station offers 10 different presentations, stress-testing the ClayTracker in terms of the variety and number of targets it can handle. All the details and photos are at http://www.shotgunlife.com.