SHOOTERS ON TOUR

I‘ve been shooting pretty seriously for the past few years, to the point where I’ve been arranging my overseas holidays to coincide with competitions so that I can shoot while on holiday. I think it would be more truthful to say that my trips have become shooting trips with some holiday time, rather than holidays with some shooting time.

The more shooting I did the more I wanted to explore the great shooting grounds we have in the UK. Living near Manchester gives me access to some excellent shooting grounds but in every shooting magazine I read, I saw articles about UK competitions being held at grounds I’d never visited. My curiosity was starting to get the better of me.

I have a few friends who are semi-interested in shooting, to the extent where they will join me once or twice per year for a trip to my home club, the fantastic Coniston Shooting Ground. However they wouldn’t be interested in a holiday with the sole intention of shooting. This means that more often than not, when shooting in the UK I am shooting by myself. It’s fine and the solo-delay functions on the modern electronic traps mean that I can go shooting whenever I want without needing someone to manually trap for me, but I enjoy shooting with people much more. You can help each other out on difficult