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Luca Rizzini talks about F.A.I.R. production and the passion for small gauges
Luca Rizzini in an interview with Mauro Riva talks about the company’s gun production and his hunting passion, one closely linked to the other.
Founded in 1971 by his father Isidoro Rizzini (hence the acronym Fabbrica Arms Isidoro Rizzini). F.A.I.R. over the years has developed to the point of nowadays representing an exporting reality of Made in Italy craftsmanship all over the world.
After his studies Luca immediately started working in the company, combining two fundamental passions: the manufacture of sporting weapons and hunting, a passion that he discovered and practiced with Isidoro from the age of six. As for the intuition that this would be his job for the future, Luca says that he was able to understand it already at the age of ten when he made rubber band guns with his cousins.
The favorite hunting activity is the traditional one from Brescia and Valle Trompia, that is the hunting of migratory birds in stands.
Hunting with pointing dogs is positioned immediately after
“I practice this type of hunting with friends and I find that the exciting thing is the walk and the even more direct contact with nature. Several times I find myself discussing the use of the gun I carry with me because, being a lover of small calibers, I prefer to use a 28 or 410 gauge shotgun.
In addition to hunting I also practice the various disciplines of sport shooting, for this reason I tend to prefer types of shotguns that can be considered multipurpose: therefore adaptable to
any kind of hunting and possibly fitted with 71 cm barrels and interchangeable chokes. Personally I prefer the selective single trigger. The advice I would like to give to any kind of use of the shotgun is to use the automatic safety devices: an organ mounted inside the battery of the weapon that puts you in the condition of always having the weapon on safety, which is easy to remove once you are ready to shoot.
Nowadays, thanks also to the improvement of ammunition over the years, small calibers such as 28 and 410 have been rediscovered and re-evaluated and Luca talks about them with enthusiasm:
“With pointing dogs, in situations where we have to shoot at a maximum distance of 25 meters, I use my shotgun 28-gauge because, in my view, these small calibers have performances that are very positive in these contexts. Obviously, all this also depends on the type of ammunition that is used.”
The shotgun that Luca secretly manufactured to Isidoro to surprise him is part of this family of guns:
“When He turned 60, I gave my father a shotgun that I and my trusted collaborators made in secret: a 28-gauge Jubilee with a hand-engraved portrait of his two grandchildren. This is a particular product as we used a wood that was given to us by a dear friend, it has an English stock and a gold front sight with a brilliant set. In addition to this, the phrase “to the man, to the friend, to the father” has been engraved in gold on the action body. Dedicated as a man of other times, a friend who spends whole days hunting with me and a father who gave me everything.
Luca attributes all the credit to his father, born in 1946 who still works in the company following the research and development department and who remains an important pivot for the creation of new products.
