When You’re Ready To Get Serious: Pacific Sporting Arms East

Serious shooters know Pacific Sporting Arms is the place to go o n the west coast for the best in sales and service. Now gun enthusiasts in the east can get the same top-notch experience at Pacific Sporting Arms East in Walled Lake, Michigan.

Owner and master gun fitter John Herkowitz brings his shooting knowledge, skills and expertise to gun enthusiasts in the east. He puts his reputation as a champion shooter and gun designer to work for you, so you’ll walk out the door with the perfect gun—a custom fit model you’ll treasure for years.

Pacific Sporting Arms’ new location in Michigan houses hundreds of models from iconic brands,displayed in an impressive showroom. It’s the country’s largest selection of highperformance competition and hunting shotguns and rifles, with top brand names including Krieghoff, Perazzi, Blaser, Beretta, Zoli, Caesar Guerini and 19 other brands.

Select from quality new and used guns from top manufacturers, and get a full service experience you won’t find at other gun shops. At Pacific Sporting Arms East, trusted firearms specialists will help you find the perfect gun.

Don’t trust anyone else for your firearm needs. Visit Pacific Sporting Arms, now with two locations to serve you— Pacific Arms East in Walled Lake, Michigan, or Pacific Arms West in Azusa, California.

a.m.-5 p.m.

renewable protein were made available to my family and friends, thanks to a half ounce of shot.

Bacon, Balvenie and Rocky

After the hunt and when all the shotguns were wiped down and put away for the day, the gentlemen in my hunting party were able to kick back and enjoy the late summer/early fall weather. The obligatory fire is started daily in the fire ring at the German Haus and the relaxation portion of this laid-back hunting trip begins.

This unique fire ring serves as our primary cooking appliance for this trip, weather permitting. We dine in royal fashion throughout this excursion, often utilizing our harvest in various ways. As an appetizer one evening this year, we blanketed dove breasts with bacon and skewered little cocoons of goodness next to sweet pepper halves. The resulting kabobs were a delectable pairing of flavors and served as an excellent prelude to dinner.

We have a tradition of each bringing a bottle of something to share during our evening cigars. While I tend to lean more towards a quality Irish whiskey or a nice American Rye, the occasional Scotch grabs my attention. On this trip my friend and owner of Black

Duck Hunting Preserve in the Upper Peninsula showed up with a bottle of 14-year-old Balvenie, finished in a Caribbean rum cask. On the nose I noticed a peppery sweetness, with fragrance of butter rum and caramel. On the initial taste I found sweet notes of light molasses and toffee. This scotch is gentle with a long warm finish and mild heat. This is one of the smoothest scotch whiskeys I have tried and was a perfect pairing with my favorite go-to, the Rocky Patel Edge Maduro.

Decompression

Finding this hunting lodge and the Tortuga Inn was a turn of pure luck. After months of grueling work during the busiest time of the season in my day job, a trip to decompress and enjoy such a laidback pace while celebrating the beginning of the hunting season brings a welcome recharge. Harvesting some doves to populate the freezer is the cherry on top which validates why this time of year is the favorite of many a wing shooter.

For Information on the Sandy Prairie Hunting Club visit them at www.sphuntclub.com

For information on the Tortuga Inn visit them at www.thetortugainn.com n