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Big Green’s American classic, the Model 870 pump-action shotgun reach a milestone with the 10,000,000 built as of last month. With its introduction in 1950, the 870 has been in continuous production ever since. I’ll bet there are a lot of stories out there about 870s. Here is mine. An older hunting buddy had an 870 in 20 gauge and sold it to another buddy who then sold it to me. It was a workhorse of a shotgun and carried well through fields and alders. Well the second buddy wanted the 870 back so I sold it back to him and the older buddy wanted it back so the 870 was sold back to him. We no longer buy and sell that small 870, but use a borrow-and-return method instead.

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The NWTF will host the World Wild Turkey Still Target Championships from October 2 to 3. It is a completion consisting of one shooter, one shotgun and one shotshell. The winner will be determined by the most shotgun pellets within a three-inch circle on a paper target from a distance of 40 yards. Back in the day we used square card board cards with a fine line “x” drawn from corner to corner. The winner was the shooter with a pellet closest to the intersection of the “x.” Winners had a choice of a turkey or a canned ham. Somehow a “canned ham shoot” doesn’t have the same ring as a turkey shoot. There was one participant with an old Mossberg goose gun—you know the old bolt actions with a 34-inch barrel—who won more turkey and ham than you could shake a 12-gauge shell at. That old Mossberg was banned from completion to level the playing field. That was some canned ham gun if you ask me.

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I knew this would happen, as soon F&S awards a product "Best of the Best Award" the product flies off dealer’s shelves. It’s like Oprah recommending a book. Well Benelli's new Vinci semi-auto shotgun has been won the "Best of the Best Award" in the shotgun category for 2009. As you may know the Vinci was announced at last year’s SHOT Show under a veil—or should I say case—of secrecy. Benelli created an advertising program that enticed users to a microsite on a specific day to see what was in the case. On the day the case was opened, the servers hosting the microsite choked from all the online traffic. So how does the gun shoot? We still haven’t gotten on hands on one to test, but we’ll keep you posted.

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