DeVault Newsletter

Dennis DeVault's March newsletter. He's coming out with a new gun this summer.

Nice article in today's paper

I'm not a fan of the New York Times editorial page but a couple of times a year they have a constructive article on shooting/hunting in the sports page. See here.

New Camera

Got some shooting in today. I'm happy with what I am shooting in handicap for this time of the year but having a hard time putting together a good singles score. I'm doing something fundamentally wrong but I haven't figured out just what it is, yet.

Eusebio Arizaga

My father in law worked for an airline back in the 50s and 60s and when he went on his honeymoon to Spain, he came back with this gun. I've had it about 15 years and it hasn't been shot in at least 10-years. It has some nice features, its a true sidelock with cocking indicators, gas vents in the receiver, full engraving, intact case colors on the sideplates, ejectors, drop points, splinter fore-end. It seems a tight as the day he brought it home. Its impractical for me, stock is too short plus its a game gun. Arizaga is mentioned in Terry Weiland's book, they were wrapped up in a Spanish gun making conglomerate called DIARM which eventually went out of business. My father in law had good taste in guns, he also had a 20 gauge Browning Superposed, a Belgian A5 and 20 gauge AH Fox.

I Don't Know About This

This is the new Beretta Xcel Target Auto. It has a thermometer, shell counter and a "relative recoil index" built into the grip cap. Seems superfluous, maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

55 Degrees!

I said I wasn't going to shoot this winter when the temperature was below 30 so I am definently going to shoot when its this warm. I shot two rounds of singles that were terrible, I couldn't seem to hit anything. Then I shot my two best handicap rounds of the year from 25 yards. I would have been happy with those handicap scores last Fall when I was shooting a lot. I don't know what it is but I really struggle to hit singles, at night, late in the week.

My Mom took this picture last year of my Dad and me.

Look at this set up

This is a picture of a friend of mine who shoots locally. I didn't know him when he was shooting this rig but I remember seeing him once with it. He loves to tinker and when I met him he was shooting a DeVault Mach One (below) with a thumbhole stock, and well. I tried it and surprisingly, the beads lined up perfectly for me.