Gun Review

Kolar AAA Competition Sporting

It’s so incongruous. In my gun safe the massive Kolar sporting clays gun stands between a petite Winchester Model 42 .410 pump and a lightweight 1920s Webley & Scott side-by-side. It’s like parking a D9 Caterpillar tractor between a Ducati and an MG TC. If ever the phrase “horses for courses” were apt, this is an example.
    Since sporting clays started in the US in 1986, the game has followed skeet and evolved from a test of field shooting with field guns to one of specialized presentations and even more specialized guns. Today’s usual over/under sporter has at least 30" barrels and weighs in  around 8 pounds. But if some is good, more is better. Right? Kolar thinks so, and the company may be correct.
    It all started in the early 1970s in Larry Kolar’s machine shop in Ithaca, New York. At the urging of a skeet-shooting friend, Kolar developed a set of... Read More »

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