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Addison and I arrived Friday night for the 2012 Dogwood Open. The forecast called for a warm Saturday and a rainy Sunday. These weatherman should be dancing on our trap houses... The weather was overcast and cool on Saturday and nice on Sunday. Below is a cloud cast view on Saturday during the 2012 ...

I hope you have enjoyed this exclusive North Carolina review of the new Butler Arms XX12 Competition Trap gun. Special thanks to Larry Butler and Jason Lee for sharing their new prototype guns with Addsion and I during the 2012 Spring Grand in Tucson last week. The Butler Arms is taking orders for t...

How does it shoot? Well, for me it shot very smooth. I am not used to holding a gun all during a round (I set mine down on a gun rest between shots), but held the XX12 up for my entire round to assist with the set-up routine. I also put the shells on my right side and by the third post had develope...

I am sure there are plenty more questions that I could have asked during our opportunity with Jason and Larry, but I am not really a gun expert. I tried to think of the types of questions that you might want to ask. I also thought of who might purchase this Cadillac of semi-autos. Phil Berkowitz cam...

Larry Butler also took one of the XX12's apart and demonstrated what is required for cleaning. The gun has very few moving parts and you basically have two tubes that fit together with a grommet. You wipe down the inside of the tubes and grommet during cleaning. The trigger assembly also has few mov...

Jason and I continued to discuss the engineering innovations in their new gun. What Jason did not answer, Larry Butler did. Larry showed me the drop out trigger assembly that includes redundant springs for the hammer. Redundant springs would have saved me at least two lost trophies and Addison sever...

"OK, what if you have a dud shell, how do you get the shell out with no lever on the side of the gun?" I asked. Jason said, "We have a slide action that can be used to eject shells manually and it is ambidextrous. It remains out of the way until you need it." "Watch and I w...

"What about pinching or taking the skin off your fingers when the breech snaps closed?" Jason nods and shows me the side of the gun. "What in the world is that? It looks like a short stumpy bullet." Jason explained that the XX12 is loaded on the side with a "small tap and p...

When Jason began to describe the gun I recalled Addison's breakfast musings and started to ask about how each problem with semi-automatics were addressed by Larry in the XX12 design. As a system architect I have a deep appreciation for elegant and clever design and became impressed. "So, it's a...

Imagine a side by side list of features and benefits for a semi-automatic shotgun. On the benefits side, you would find: Reduced weight Smooth action Simplicity of loading Easy swing to target , and Very low recoil Other benefits, depending on the sport or hunting application may be the ability to l...

Butler Arms USA is based up in Whitefish, Montana. Their president, Larry Butler hails from Canada and has spent 12 years in research and development on their XX12 competition shotgun. Larry has sought to put the most modern technology and innovations into their semi-automatic. We believe Larry has ...

Addison and I had a unique opportunity to try out two of the Butler Arms XX12 competition trap semi-automatic shotguns while we were at the 2012 Spring Grand in Tucson, AZ. Since there are only five of these guns I thought it important to give North Carolina shooters a look at this new shotgun.Butle...

Preliminary Singles Winner Tie - loss carry over Premiminary Handicap Winner Tie - won shoot-off 24/23 Tucson Handicap Championship Winner Singles Championship "B" Class Runner-Up Tie - forfeit shoot off, Sub Junior 3rd place AA points Four All American Pins Two Handicap 1/2 yard punches T...

We shot on squad 21 and have already finished. Addison shot a pair of 98s for a 196. He dropped two on the first field of the back 100 and ran the remaining 94 targets. He was running close behind a AAA and two AAs that had shot 99s in the first 100, so we are waiting to see if he shoots for place o...

Addison shot his first 90 in doubles in a long time today. Since that wonky round at the Hall of Fame shoot he has never settled back into his groove. With the field of All American Sub Juniors here a 96 took the event with several others falling just below. Addison's 90 was in the middle of the pac...