75 YEARS OF FAUSTI

AS THIS FAMILY-OWNED ITALIAN GUNMAKER CELEBRATES A MILESTONE IN FIREARMS MANUFACTURING, WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT MAKES TODAY’S FAUSTI SHOTGUNS SO APPEALING.

BRAD FITZPATRICK

THE SUN is shining over northern Italy, but it’s early in the morning and the air is still cold. I’m hunting that day as a guest of the Fausti sisters, Barbara and Giovanna, the second generation of the Fausti family shotgun manufacturer. We are in a beautiful hunting place, the Giorgio Paraporti’s G&G Hunting Service. On three sides of the stubble field I’m hunting, the hills are draped with bright green grapevines planted in neat rows, and directly behind me is a 16th century villa that looks much today as it did in the years when Europeans colonized North America. A pair of ponderous orange and white Bracco Italiano bird dogs move up and down the stubble rows with a slow-footed, purposeful trot. They stray too far ahead and their…

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Gun Dog (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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