Tall men and Trap
In most sports height, if complemented by the appropriate physique and coordination, is an advantage. With greater reach and a longer stride, the taller man or woman has a greater potential to come out on top in most ball games and athletics. In one sport however this is not the case and beyond certain limits [...]
Cold Weather Shooting
Shooters that continue clay shooting throughout the winter months may have noticed that the colder weather can sometimes have a detrimental effect on their scores. The warmer and heavier clothing required in the winter doesn’t help, but there is a fundamentally different problem that most shooters are probably unaware of; namely the velocity sapping effects [...]
Daydream to shoot better
Sports Psychologist Phil Coley is daydreaming our scores up. Follow his tips for some out of hours training Remember the days at school when you looked out of the window and daydreamed to the point that your teacher shouted at you? Daydreaming is a form of mental imagery – although daydream sounds a little less [...]
Gun Test: Beretta Silver Pigeon Sporter
Vic Harker tests the Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon 1 Sporter that may break clays but certainly won’t break the bank The other day a magazine editor said to me in the simplistic way that breed are inclined to do, that the only thing he wanted to know from a gun test was whether the gun [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
A shooting Christmas
Pet Easton takes Christmas to the next level as she offers her tips to work on your shooting over the winter season with her Christmas check list
Colt winner shoots for the top
16-year-old Jake Moore has been shooting for four years and this year won a host of competition titles more experienced shots would hanker for
Do back-bored guns shoot faster?
Many modern clay guns promise higher velocity thanks to back-bored barrels – but does it work? Nick Wilson investigates