Richard Atkins offers a few purchasing pointers for novices that even experienced shooters would do well to remind themselves of. Purchasing a shotgun often creates a dilemma: should you buy a budget-priced new gun or an older gun from an…
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Shotgun buying advice from Richard Atkins
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Clever Grand Italia cartridge review
Richard Atkins puts Clever’s premium Grand Italia clay cartridges through their paces For years Clever cartridges have largely been associated with the top end of clay shooting. Founded by the Chiampan brothers back in 1952, the company was focused on…
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Rio Target Load cartridge reviews
These two 21 gram clay cartridges from Rio offer tremendous performance and value for money, says Richard Atkins. The cartridges put through their paces this month are the lighter shot load versions of the Rio 28 gram Target Load cartridges we…
Fiocchi LiteSpeed cartridge review with Richard Atkins
Hang on to your hat – Richard Atkins has got his hands on the super-fast Fiocchi LiteSpeed clay cartridges. You can tell that clay shooting is a vibrant sport by the huge number of products that are available, whether that’s…
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Will my gun shoot steel? Clay Shooting Q&A
Let us know if you have any questions, such as will my gun shoot steel – we have the experts to answer them Your clay shooting experts Will my gun shoot steel? Q: I own a Sporting O/U which I…
Tagged with: Becky McKenzie, cartridges, choke, clay club, Clay Shooting, Clays, Ed Lyons, experts, gun, gun shoot, live quarry, multichokes, pigeon shooting, Richard Atkins, shoot, Sporting, Steel, steel shot, Stuart Farr
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Fausti XF4 review
Becky McKenzie reviews not one but two Fausti XF4s – and she’s impressed! I felt honoured to have been selected to test a Fausti XF4, which was loaned to me by Tony Laughton of Fausti UK, based at Stag Country…
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Gun cleaning and maintenance – fix up your woodwork
This is the ideal time to renovate the battle-worn stock and fore-end on your clay gun. Richard Atkins explains how to do it in our bit of latest gun cleaning and maintenance advice. I’m sure many readers’ guns have never been…
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How to clean your gun at home
With shooting on hold, Richard Atkins is back with more tips on how clean and maintain your gun while at home. This time, Richard Atkins is looking at Extractors/ejectors and woodwork. Browning and Miroku guns, like the one shown here,…
Tagged with: Browning, diy, gun, Miroku, Richard Atkins, shooting, woodwork
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CORONAVIRUS: Our tips on what to do during social distancing
At the start of last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out a new strategy for managing the coronavirus outbreak. One of the key factors for this was advising everyone to adhere to social distancing practices – to avoid all…
Ask the experts: Prescription inserts or lenses and more…
Let us know if you have any questions to ask – we have the experts to answer them! Send your questions for our panel to fieldsports@futurenet.com or to the Bromsgrove address on our contents page. Your experts Richard Atkins Clay…
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