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…
Advice and tips
Gun cleaning and maintenance – fix up your woodwork
Tagged with: clay gun, clay target guns, fore-end, Gun cleaning, kits, Richard Atkins, stock, woodwork
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Gun mount technique: beginners guide to clay shooting
You can’t expect to improve your scores until you can get your gun mount technique right every time, as James Marchington explains. You hear a lot about gun mount technique, and for good reason. It’s vital that you mount a…
Tagged with: Clay Shooting, gun mount, gun mount technique, James Marchington, shotgun shooting, target
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Posted in Advice and tips, Coaching
Shooters’ tips for making the most of coronavirus lockdown
Rhys Plum talks to fellow shooters to discover how they are coping, and gets some shooters’ tips on maintaining skills and fitness. Shooters’ tips: Matt Hance First to give out shooters’ tips is Matt Hance. Matt is currently in the…
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Gun maintenance tips: Follow up on action cleaning
Our final edition of this series offers more detail on action cleaning during your gun maintenance lockdown session. It is quite straightforward to remove the stock and check, clean and lubricate the action. This isn’t required often, but it’s worth…
Tagged with: action, action cleaning, action springs, butt pad, gun maintenance tips, lockdown, pistol, stock, stock bolt
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Posted in Advice and tips, Features
Gun maintenance tips: How to clean your gun barrels
Over the past week we’ve been bringing you some gun maintenance tips and hints on how to make the best of your time during lockdown. And now, next up on our how-to is how to clean your gun barrels, so…
Tagged with: barrels, bore, clean, gun barrels, gun maintenance, lockdown, magic bore, napier gun cleaning
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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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Ethan Lowry on hand-eye coordination
Ethan Lowry on the importance of developing strong hand-eye coordination to enhance your shooting prowess Clay shooting actually involves more of the senses than people may think. You’re holding the gun (touch), watching for the clay (sight) and listening for…
How to improve your gun swing and keep fit
Stuck at home unable to get out shooting? Becky McKenzie has some advice on practising your swing and keeping fit. Many of us are now unable to get out to a shooting ground, whether for a registered Sunday shoot or…
Tagged with: Becky McKenzie, gun, gun mounting, gun swing, how to, keep fit, shoot, shooting, Shooting Ground
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How to get sponsored in clay shooting (pt 2 – tips from shooters)
Recently we showed you a step by step approach on how to get sponsorship deals as you embark on a clay shooting career. Now that we’ve covered the plan, we have tips from those who have done it themselves! Ami…
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Mike Yardley’s positive shooting
Mike Yardley explains how he developed his successful Positive Shooting method and how you can put it into practice. Some 35 years ago, I decided I wanted to be a shooting instructor. I had already been shooting since I was…
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Posted in Advice and tips, Features, Technical
Posted in Advice and tips, Features, Technical
