News
A rising star
After just one year, Ronnie Green has become a successful young clay shot, who knows what the future could hold for this rising star YOUNG SHOT PROFILE. Name: Ronnie Green Age: 12 Born: November 1999 Location: Bexleyheath, Kent. Favourite saying “Holy Shmoke” when he dusts a clay! Favourite birds: All of them but especially [...]
Browning signs ‘em young
Browning’s enthusiasm for spotting new talent saw an early signing for the youngest member of Oxford Gun Company’s Florent team recently. Nicky Rand, daughter of Doug and Shirley Florent, and her husband Richard, welcomed their first son Henry into the world on 28 September ‑ and Browning, with its long association with Oxford Gun, was [...]
New Browning to be unveiled
Browning is set to unveil the new B7-25 to the public at the British Shooting show in February. The B7-25 will be available in both Game and Sporter versions, coming in grade 1 to start with; left-handed models and a choice of barrel lengths can also be specified however. As expected, the new model comes [...]
Features
A rising star
After just one year, Ronnie Green has become a successful young clay shot, who knows what the future could hold for this rising star YOUNG SHOT PROFILE. Name: Ronnie Green Age: 12 Born: November 1999 Location: Bexleyheath, Kent. Favourite saying “Holy Shmoke” when he dusts a clay! Favourite birds: All of them but especially [...]
Leading the way
As most people who are involved with the sport will agree, promoting young newcomers is essential to keeping clay shooting alive. There is no bigger champion of this than professional Sporting shooter, Ben Husthwaite. 2011 has been a bumper year for Ben, with wins at the Clay Shooting Classic and Dutch FITASC championship; however he [...]
Coaching
What stock finish is best?
Q I am really confused over stock finishes: lots of my friends talk about the finish on their stocks, most say that an oil finish is best, others say a varnish or lacquer. I was told when I bought my gun that it had an oil finish, but it has now gone very dull and [...]
Why the long barrels
Q I currently use a 28” Skeet gun with mixed success – I’ve noticed that you and some of the other top Skeet shots are using 32” barrelled guns. What are the benefits of using longer barrels?
Reviews
A barrel full of innovation
Beretta’s launch of its new DT11 target gun marks the beginning of the company’s strategy to regain the market share at the highest level of clay target shooting. The senior manager of the company, Carlo Ferlito, made no secret of this to an assembled group of Beretta’s European distributors and the shooting press in Cyprus [...]
Back to our Trap shooting roots
Vic Harker looks at the history of a game that recalls Trap shooting’s colourful past
Events
Student shots fight hard
Over 10,603 athletes from over 150 countries descended on China for the World University Games and the GB Trap shooting team fought the heat to stay in the contest that saw a number of World Cup standard performances
Bachelor bags the booty
The Laporte World Sporting Southern Championships saw Warwickshire’s Paul Bachelor beat the course setters to take the loot