gun review The Swamp Magnum shotgun comes in two variations, Realtree Max-5 camo (foreground) and black.
trip, we had something a lot more destructive to shotguns, and that’s saltwater. Anything made of metal can literally rust before your eyes in this environment, but the Swamp Magnum shotguns we used on this hunt seemed to take it all in stride. I saw no rust develop on the guns, and only a small amount on the choke tubes, which did not have the same finish as the shotguns. But these smoothbores did much more than simply endure; they excelled at the one job they had, and that was plucking ducks out of the sky. “I love this shotgun as duck gun because of the length of the sight
plane with the 30-inch barrels,” said James Prince, a very experienced waterfowl hunter and manager at the Shoalwater Bay Club, a private lodge in Port O’Conner. “Every time I pulled the trigger, a duck dropped.” James also liked the trigger on this shotgun and the Realtree Max-5 camo. “I think it is a camo pattern that most hunters can use, whether they are turkey, dove or duck hunting,” he said. Another one of our hosts on this trip was Vence Petrenella, corporate conservation manager for Silver Eagle Distributors in Texas. Vence is a native Texan and spends close to 50 days a year in the duck marsh.
“I was very pleased with the overall performance of the Swamp Magnum. It is well balanced and points really well, allowing you to look down the 30-inch barrel to your target. The soft trigger on this gun was one of the best I have ever shot. It was crisp when squeezing it, and allowed you to keep your head down on the gun.” Dave Miller is the shotgun product manager at CZ-USA, as well as their exhibition shooter. Among other accomplishments, Miller set a Guinness Book of World Records for the most clay targets broken in one hour, a mere 3,653, a feat covered in the July 2015 issue of this magazine.
A better look at the two variations of CZ-USA’s new over-and-under.
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American Shooting Journal // January 2017