Many years ago, I was at the old Beretta club in Maryland, preparing to go out on the sporting clay course, which was recently made ready for use. John Satterwhite was showing me a Model 21 two barrel set that he had just bought. We went out on the course and had a nice shoot. The course, at that time, was a tight little woods course where targets were usually from 15 to 20 yards, and fast. John ran, I think, a 48 or 49 out of fifty. When we got back to his car, I examined his gun and found that he had used the full and full barrels for our round. His patterns couldn't have been larger than 12 or 15 inches wide. He was some shot. One fine day, John told me his normal helper for his "show" was not available. He approached me and asked, "Can you catch a shotgun if I throw it at you from fifteen feet away?" I knew what was coming and replied that I could certainly catch that shotgun. Those of you who have seen his show know what came next. I did the whole show with him including the station eight demonstration where he would shoot a high house, throw the empty gun at me while I threw (or handed) a loaded gun to him and he would shoot a low house, and repeat about ten times, from the hip. His skill on multiple thrown targets was unbelievable. We practiced at my home club in Poolesville, Maryland when he lived in West Virginia.
