Shotguns

With all this spare time on your hands, what are you up to? Walking? Running? Reading? These activities are great ways to spend your time under lockdown, but why not dust up on your shooting skills?

The entire nation has been rocked by the Covid-19 outbreak and the most recent restrictions put in place by the government have affected all areas of the country, shooting sports are no exception. In fact, the field sports community will see quite a drastic change to life due to the togetherness and seasonality of so many shooting activities.

On a recent Facebook post we shared some lovely images from Mucky Boot Photography of some stunning old cartridges. We had a great response and wanted to take a trip down memory lane to see how cartridges have changed over the years. Featuring some of our followers' very own finds and the background of them.

Gun mount is fundamental for making sure you are in the best position to hitting your target. These step by step guides will help you achieve a smooth and efficient mount every time. It will help you to bring the comb up under the gun sight making sure you are aligning your shooting eye perfectly time after time. Perfecting this will help you when out shooting to focus shooting the clay instead of worrying about your stance.

If you're new to the shooting world and want to get into clay pigeon shooting, we've put together three useful steps to ensure you're not just shooting into the abyss. In a competition, you only get to see each clay once.

Knowing which eye is dominant is for people who are starting out shooting. Unless you are ambidextrous, you probably prefer to do most things with one hand over the other. However, do not be fooled as your dominant eye may not be the same as your dominant hand.

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The current, shambolic general licences expire on 29 February 2020. Tied in legal knots by the anti-shooting Wild Justice group, UK environment department DEFRA is currently not in a position to issue new general licences for the shooting and trapping of pest birds in England when they expire in February, says the shooting organisation BASC.