Bob Marshall

The Reality of a Water Crisis and its Impact on Sportsmen

Online Editors — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:35:49 -0500

The year is 2015 and your community finds its water supply diminishing. Government must make a choice: Keep the dwindling reserves moving to homes, hospitals, schools, and factories—or keep it going to fish, wetlands, and wildlife.

Who wins?

I think you know. The nation’s fish and wildlife managers certainly do. They’re already experiencing a water crisis.

Inside the Benelli Shotgun Factory in Urbino, Italy

Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:54:19 -0400

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:29 -0400

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:27 -0400

There are field grade beauties, camo-skinned workhorses, and matte-black technical innovators.

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:26 -0400

For a southern waterfowler like me, the shotguns -- all autoloaders -- coming out of that assembly line are eye candy in every desirable flavor.

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:25 -0400

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:24 -0400

... unattainable by human hand or eye.

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:44:52 -0400

And computer errors are caught by quality control checks done by other computers measuring parts and fits to microscopic tolerances that are ...

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:44:50 -0400

"Computer-driven robots can make gun parts to much more demanding tolerances than anyone can do by hand," explained Gian Luigi Boninella, plant manager at Benelli. His factory can produce 700 auto-loading shotguns per day- about 600 more than a factory full of hand craftsman could do. And they will be tighter-fitting and more blemish-free than anything produced by hand, Boninella claimed, because the element of human error has been removed.

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Joe_Cermele — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:44:49 -0400