Steel shot may be the future for game shooters, but does it have a place in clay shooting? James Simon investigates. In 2017 a 91-year-old national treasure showed us images of albatross chicks eating a diet of plastic. A year…
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Steel shot for clay shooting – is it the future?
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Four things clay shooters should wear in the rain
The summer competition season may soon be drawing to a close, and there has been plenty of rain recently, but that won’t stop the dedicated claybuster. There are plenty of grounds offering year-round shooting, with winter series shoots, floodlit practice…
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Christmas gifts for shooters
It’s that time of year to wrap up warm, light the fire and worry that you still haven’t figured out what to get your loved ones this Christmas. Fear not, the elves at Clay Shooting magazine have been hard at…
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The problem with plastics
Kate Gatacre investigates how the shooting community is meeting the challenge of environmental responsibility. You’d have to have stuck your head very deep in the sand to be unaware of the issue of single-use plastics and the effect they have…
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