Mike Bartlett sets out to answer the most important question of all: who will cook dinner? February was a time for booking competitions. Many of the majors opened for booking this month and experience from last year tells us that…
Shooting for supper with Mike Bartlett
Tagged with: Compak, compak grand prix, competitions, essex masters, fitase, forehill, meadowcroft, mike barlett, Richard Faulds, Sporting, UK
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Second-hand heroes with Richard Atkins
Richard Atkins continues his masterclass on what to look for when buying a second-hand gun. Recently we covered most of the basics of how to assess a second-hand shotgun with a view to making a purchase. We went over the…
Tagged with: airflow, Beretta, Briley, Browning, gemini, guns, invector, Miroku, nikko rivelling, purdey, Richard Atkins, second-hand, Teague, Trulock, wad, Winchester
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The British Schools and Young Shots Championship 2019: Everything you need to know
With the British Schools & Young Shots Championship less than a month away, we can unveil an exclusive prize and membership bundle for the High Gun, as well as guns to be won from Webley and Armsan. On Saturday 4…
Tagged with: Armsan, BASC, basc course, black course, British Schools and Young Shots, bsys, championship, clay shooting magazine, High Gun, junior membership, prize, seeland, seeland clothing, shooting, targets, webley
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Clay line up for Northern Shooting Show
The Northern Shooting Show has established itself as a key highlight in shooters’ calendars – and the clay line just keeps getting more impressive. The Northern Shooting Show is back for its fourth year on 11-12 May and will once…
Tagged with: BASC, Benelli, Beretta, Bettinsoli, blaser, breda, Browning, clay, clay shooters, CPSA, Fausti, gundog, High Gun, icsi, longthrone, marocchi, northern shooting show, Perazzi, products, Remington, shooters, shotguns, yorkshire event centre, Zoli
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Sun soaked success
The Algarve Grand Prix and Portuguese third Cont. Championships were a success story for Britain’s shooters, reports Anita North. I have just returned from my first visit to O Pinhal Shooting Ground near Faro on Portugal’s Algarve. I was there…
Tagged with: algarve grand prix, anita north, cont. championships, ISSF, o pinhal shooting ground, Olympic Trap, shooters
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BASC will be sponsoring the 2019 BSYS
BASC (British Association of Shooting and Conservation) recently announced it would be sponsoring the 2019 BSYS (British Schools and Young Shots) It was also announced that BASC would be backing the 32-bird under-14s course for the third year in a row, and that…
Kirsty Barr wins silver and quota in Al Ain
Great Britain has won the first quota place for Tokyo 2020 Olympic clay shooting events, thanks to Kirsty Barr’s silver in the World Cup at Al Ain. The Northern Irish shooter performed fantastically as she went toe to toe with…
Tagged with: al ain, charlotte hollands, Clay Shooting, great britain, kirsty barr, national lottery, Olympic, tokyo 2020, UK Sport, women's trap, world cup
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Shoot sets sights on £100K target for children’s hospice
A popular annual clay pigeon shoot is returning to Braintree in Essex for the sixth year on Tuesday 4th June. The event is raising money for Little Havens Hospice – the only place in Essex dedicated to caring for babies,…
Tagged with: braintree, clay pigeon shoot, Essex, little havens, little havens clay pigeon shoot, Little Havens Hospice, manor house, shooters, ten-clay pool shoot, the fennes shooting school
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Charity Shoot Raises over £4000 for Disabled Shooters Group
A rainy April 2nd 2019 saw the fourth annual charity shoot arranged by The Pointers at Eriswell Lodge Shooting Ground, Suffolk. All money raised this year will be donated to the Disabled Shooters Group, an organisation dedicated to developing opportunities…
Mind over body
Research suggests you could boost your scores by ten per cent with some simple breathing exercises. Just imagine for a moment that you could improve your competition scores by around ten per cent at a stroke. There’s no need for extra…
Tagged with: breathing, cartridges, chokes, coaching, Competition, competition nerves, gun fit, heart rate, Olympic Trap, performance, seren evans, targets
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