Sporting Clays in Moonshine Country With The New Ruger Red Label: Part I

By Irwin Greenstein

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at ShotgunLife.com]

Cruising the legendary bootlegger Route 9 that connects Dawsonville, Georgia to Atlanta, 82-year-old Charlie Mincey recounted from the mohair passenger seat the glory days of running 200 gallons per night on snaky dirt roads — his younger eyes glancing into the rearview mirror for headlights of Revenue Agents in their own souped-up Fords confiscated from Charlie’s “moonshine trippin´” buddies. At first sight of distant beams, Charlie would open-up the triple-carburetored flathead V8 in a twisty 60-mile sprint to the moonshine shot houses of Atlanta at speeds that approached 100 miles per …read more

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