Let me say that just about the sweetest music to me is when I call, 'pull,' the old gun barks, and the referee in perfect key announces, 'dead'.

John Philip Sousa

Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.

John Moses Browning (1855-1926)

What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places I think about and smile... They are because shotguns are. Without them, I would have been empty. They have made my life full.

Gene Hill (1928 -1997)

While not a .410 bore... just as accurate! Mrs. Mary Smith wakes the dockers of Limehouse, London, with her peashooter in 1927.

Photo by John Topham

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” — William Jennings Bryant (1860-1925)

Amber English, Team USA, pictured