SHOTGUN ALLEY
A CZ-USA Magnum Reaper lies on turkey patterning targets.
TAKING TURKEYS, NEAR AND FAR
A gobbler hunting trip with CZ-USA’s David Miller provides insights on company’s O/U Magnum Reaper. STORY AND PHOTOS BY LARRY CASE
avid Miller made me an offer I could not refuse. Once again he had invited me to the great state of Missouri to pursue spring turkeys. How can you turn that down? Maybe you have heard me talk about Mr. Miller before. He hails from Grain Valley, Missouri, and is the shotgun product manager and pro shooter at CZ-USA, a
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gun company based in Kansas City. To say that Miller knows about shotguns and does some shotgun shooting would be like saying the Pyramids are a bunch of rocks piled up in Egypt. Not once but twice, Miller has set Guinness World Records involving shotguns and breaking clay targets. The first time was in 2015 when he shattered 3,653 clays in one hour. The next was in 2019 when Miller, along with four young team members, shot for 12 hours (that’s right, 12 hours) and broke 14,167 clay targets. Both of
these feats are in the Guinness World Records book; you can look it up. I was there for both events, saw the whole thing, and it was a sight to behold. Maybe I have made my point: I shoot shotguns, you shoot shotguns, but we don’t shoot shotguns like David Miller. I have no trouble believing that he dreams about shotguns at night, rises in the morning and spends the day shooting shotguns, thinking about shotguns, or planning the next shotgun that CZ-USA will bring to the market. But this trip, as with others in americanshootingjournal.com 75
