Zoli Unveils the Z-Bella
Italian gunmakers seem to have a flair for presenting an essentially sated market with the new and novel. Zoli’s new Z-Bella, a competition shotgun...
Doug Tate is an Editor at Large for Shooting Sportsmanwith more than 350 articles published in the past 30 years. A British native, he attended the College of Art & Industrial Design, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has a keen eye for aesthetics, from a well-turned sentence to a well-filed gun action. He has been a longtime contributor to The Field, in the UK, and is the author of the books Birmingham Gunmakers and British Gun Engraving. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Italian gunmakers seem to have a flair for presenting an essentially sated market with the new and novel. Zoli’s new Z-Bella, a competition shotgun...
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