Clay Shooting

FANTASTIC FAUXDEGLA

Ten miles west of Wrexham, through the bracken-speckled hills and sleepy villages of North Wales, lies one of the UK’s greatest clay shooting competition shooting grounds, Fauxdegla. Its owner, Mike Faux, was originally a close protection officer, and spent many years watching over the rich and famous. Eventually the stress of the job caught up with him, and he suffered a devastating heart attack in 2006. “I was advised to take up a sport to try to

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