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All Episodes

A Break in the Action — 75 episodes

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The Best Days Aren’t About the Shooting

2

Listen While You Still Can

3

Just ONE Shotgun?

4

From Rolex to Rizzini: How a watch enthusiast found wingshooting

5

Is the 12 gauge dead?

6

The Traveling Wingshooter: Building The Ultimate Bird Hunting Rig

7

A Sporting Weekend at The Preserve

8

American Bests

9

Forgotten British Gunmakers with Simon Reinhold

10

Reviving a London Gunmaking Legend: Frederick Beesley

11

The Story behind the Stories: Shooting Sportsman magazine

12

Safe Queens (and why they’re OK)

13

Between Flushes: Chris P.

14

Stuff and Things 2025

15

Hit or Miss with Jonny Carter

16

America's Wingshooting Traditions: Ruffed Grouse

17

CÆSAR GUERINI with Wes Lang

18

Wild Game: From Field Care to Flavors with Hank Shaw

19

Buying Shotguns at Auction

20

Shotgun Stories VI: Will Primos

21

Modern Side by Side Buyers Guide (and I bought a new gun - actually, two!)

22

Shotgunning and a Secret Bunker at The Greenbrier Resort

23

On Location: The 2025 Southern Side by Side

24

A Guide to the Gauges

25

Shotgun Stories V: Reid Bryant

26

The 26th annual Southern Side by Side Championship and Exhibition - you need to be there!

27

Shooting driven and walked-up birds in England

28

A history of Beretta SO shotguns + introduction to Beretta's Shotgun of the Year

29

An exciting and unique shotgun announcement with Rich Cole

30

Shotgun Stories IV: Jonny Carter

31

MacNab Challenge

32

London Best: Holland and Holland

33

Anthony Matarese Jr and Will Primos discuss their new book 'Straight Shooting for Hunters'

34

Dove hunting at Hollywood Farms and review of the Rizzini Venus

35

London Best: James Purdey and Sons

36

Shotguns, sporting clays and steaks at Nemacolin Resort

37

Shotgun Stories III: Larry Potterfield

38

A weekend with Griffin and Howe at the Hudson Farm Club + Longthorne Victory Sporter shooting review

39

Shotgun Stories II: Dania Vizzi

40

Beretta DT11: A six month review + recap of our listener's event

41

The legends in your sporting library with Steve Smith

42

Humbled by helice at Prairie Wildlife

43

Best double-barrel shotguns $1,000 - $3,000

44

John Rigby and Co.

45

Flying with your shotgun

46

Shotgun Stories I: AJ DeRosa

47

Used shotgun buyers guide with Gregg Elliott and Phil Bourjaily

48

What's in my shooting bag?

49

PART 2: High pheasants, flighted mallard and two magnificent 12g game guns!

50

PART 1: High pheasants, flighted mallard and two magnificent 12g game guns!

51

Glorious guns! Best Scottish shotguns with J-P Daeschler

52

Hunting trips, bird camp and micro-conservation with Joe Schwenke

53

Dr. Frankenstein's shotgun with Jonny Carter, Part 2

54

Dr. Frankenstein's shotgun with Jonny Carter, Part 1

55

Why walnut for shotgun stocks + what was the Browning 'salt wood' fiasco?

56

Et al. 2023

57

Best quail gun: A panel discussion with Reid Bryant, Durrell Smith and Charlie Jordan

58

28 gauge: Magic or Myth?

59

A look at "the golden age of shotgunning" / Vintage Gunners Cup 2023

60

Westley Richards: The pioneer of your modern shotgun.

61

A tribute to The Shotgun Journal with Marty Fischer

62

Best grouse gun: A panel discussion with Nick Larson, Gregg Elliott, Meadow Kouffeld and Rich Wong.

63

A weekend shooting at The Omni Homestead Resort plus a review of the new Connecticut Shotgun Mfg. G1

64

Shooting tweeds

65

Reuniting pairs of shotguns

66

Best double-barreled shotguns <$1,000

67

Are British shotguns better than American shotguns?

68

Bird hunting with a .410

69

An anthology of Orvis branded shotguns with Greg Carpiniello

70

Vintage shotguns with Gregg Elliott

71

Finished stock sets for Beretta O/U's from ColeGun.com

72

A look at British style shooting in the U.S.

73

Hemingway's shotguns, an interview with 'Hemingway's Guns' author Silvio Calabi

74

Double Guns of Nashville, a store visit & conversation with Barry Rich

75

A conversation with British shooting instructor, Keith Coyle.