Sporting Gun

Hit and miss

Everybody has a bad day at some point in their shooting life and it can be extremely frustrating. Like most sports, when it’s going well it all seems so easy — every bird you lift your gun to crumples in the sky.

But when it goes wrong it can knock your confidence and baffle even the most experienced Shot as to why you are missing even the simplest targets. Here are a few things you can look at when the proverbial ‘wheels come off’.

It’s probably the easiest and least used cure but take a break and think of

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