BHA Podcast & Blast, EP. 54: Beretta’s Cory Mays and Dakotah Richardson

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

When you are shooting a classic Beretta over and under shotgun at the trap range or in the field, you are handling a finely made weapon built by the same company that made the arquebus barrels used to quell the Ottoman Turks at the ferocious Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Heck, Beretta Arms was already almost 50 years old by then! The Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, with its headquarters in Brescia, Italy (in the Val Trompe, a center of iron ore mining and smelting since the days of the Roman Empire), is the world’s oldest gun manufacturer and one of the world’s all-time finest. Hal talks shotguns, shooting, history and more with Beretta’s Dakotah Richardson, a former Olympic shotgunner, and Cory Mays, a Beretta gunsmith who literally grew up in a gunsmith shop.

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0:00.0	On the far right wall, Mr. Barrett allowed anybody to put a gun in that display that was a military weapon
0:08.9	that showed a major advancement in the technology. So that is, I think, the coolest wall to look at because you can sit there and go from old cap and ball
0:16.0	musket guns and walk all the way up to modern day ARs and, you know, saw machine guns and that kind of stuff.
0:22.0	No, absolutely. and you know saw machine guns and that kind of stuff.
0:23.0	Oh absolutely and it's you know it's effortless those rifles make that easy you know so
0:28.4	that you know a thousand yards your most everyday hunters never gonna shoot that animal
0:32.2	out that far.
0:33.0	But that translate at, you know, at 100 yards, your rounds are touching, you're almost touching.
0:37.8	All you got to do is make a steady platform for it.
0:40.3	No, exactly.
0:41.3	That's the trigger.
0:42.3	Yeah. Instead of jerking it and waving it all around. it's the trigger. Oh yeah.
0:43.0	Instead of jerking it and waving it all around like a baton.
0:46.0	You know?
0:48.0	Things like I get done with something and I got an hour and a half
0:52.0	and I'm lucky to have a place
0:53.4	to shoot. Yeah. And I'll go out there and I'll shoot for a while and I just get kind of
0:57.3	lost in it. It's two o'clock and come back I feel great. Youth shooting is the key.
1:04.0	You got to get the youth into, otherwise everything we love is going to be gone.
1:08.0	I learned at about 20 that if you ever walk up on a skeet field and there's some 70
1:14.2	year old men shooting four tens you should leave because they're going to take
1:16.9	every dollar you have.
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