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C'zing the Chance - Shotgun World-Record Holder Dave Miller & CZ-USA 612 Magnum
AShooting Journal ^ | 7/11/2016 | Larry Case

Posted on 07/11/2016 8:01:57 AM PDT by w1n1

I had been discussing this for a while with Dave Miller, the shotgun product manager at CZ-USA, a firearm manufacturer headquartered next door to Missouri in Kansas City, Kan. CZ-USA is the US-based subsidiary of the Czech Republic company that makes a long list of firearms, including rifles, pistols, submachine guns and some very fine shotguns.

Many of their scatterguns are made in Turkey, which, if you didn't know, has a long history of making firearms. CZ-USA also owns Dan Wesson Firearms, which has produced excellent revolvers and pistols for years, including some very nice 1911s.

I have talked to you about Miller in these pages before. Last year I reported on a feat he accomplished that I do not expect to be equaled anytime soon. Miller broke no less than 3,653 clay targets in one hour, squarely putting him in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Miller is what I would call a rabid shotgun shooter. He lives and breathes it. Besides handling the shotgun product line for CZ-USA, he is also their demonstration and exhibition shooter. I don’t know how many days a year he spends on the road shooting shotguns, but it is way more than I want to be away from home. Saying that Dave Miller shoots a shotgun is like saying Michelangelo painted a few pictures.

So, when Miller called me last spring and invited me to go hunt some Missouri turkeys, I was all for it. The day I arrived Miller drove me out to the hunting area to check it out and unlimber the shotguns we would be using. We elected to use the CZ 612 Magnum Turkey Shotgun, and by the end of our shooting session I was glad we did. Any shotgunner needs at least one good pump gun and the CZ 612 may be perfect. This shotgun only weighs an amazing 6.8 pounds – that's light. It has a 3½-inch chamber for those who want to shoot the big shells, and it also takes 3- and 2¾-inch shells. What I appreciated was an action that is not equaled by any shotgun in the same price range. "This is the smoothest, most reliable action on a pump shotgun since the Model 12," Miller told me. "It is very durable and easy to operate." Read the rest of the CZ-USA 612 Magnum story here.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 612magnum; czusa; davemiller; shotgun

1 posted on 07/11/2016 8:01:57 AM PDT by w1n1
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To: w1n1

Interesting, but thanks, I’ll keep my Model 12. Never needed anything more than 2 3’4 for Turkeys. No point in going butterfly hunting with a bazooka.


2 posted on 07/11/2016 8:54:16 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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