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…
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Gun mount technique: beginners guide to clay shooting
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…
Tagged with: Amy Easeman, ej churchills, england, FITASC, fitness, gun, gun mount, shooters, skills, target, Team GB, tom seay
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Posted in Advice and tips
George Digweed: The master shares his shooting technique
Last year, George Digweed began teaching the instructors at EJ Churchill to pass on his world-beating technique – now you can learn his secrets here. This article was originally featured in February 2019 Ask any shooter who they want to…
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Posted in Coaching
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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Posted in Advice and tips
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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Posted in Advice and tips
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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Posted in Advice and tips
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…
Tagged with: Clay Shooting, CPSA, DTL, Olympic, shooter, Skeet, Sponsorship, Trap
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Posted in Advice and tips
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…
Tagged with: ask the experts, cartridge, cartridges, Clay Shooting, CPSA, Ed Lyons, fibre loads, firearms, guns, inserts, ISSF, James Marchington, lenses, plastic wads, questions, Richard Atkins, shooters, shooting glasses, stock, Stuart Farr, vision
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Posted in Ask the Experts
