Grace Callahan calls them “Frankenstocks,” and she doesn’t miss them one bit. A hunter, top-level shooting instructor, and eight-time member of the National Sporting Clays Association All-American ladies team, Callahan grew up shouldering shotguns with bulky stocks made with pieces and parts that adjusted to individual shooters. “I started shooting competitively when I was fifteen,” says Callahan, who is now twenty-nine, “and all that honking big hardware added a lot of weight. And those guns were ugly, too.”
That changed five years ago, when Callahan picked up a Syren Tempio shotgun, a model designed for women
