GUNNING FOR THE GARDEN
So your club’s closed, your permission is temporarily off-limits and your sport is on hold, right? Well, if you have access to a garden, and that also includes a smaller one, then shooting can very much continue.
Unlike a regular shooting range, a garden is always open for business. With a few legal and safety points adhered to, the garden is an excellent place to shoot our airguns, allowing us to plink to our heart’s content, practise our shooting skills or even set up and test a new rifle and scope combo.
If you don’t own a garden of your own, try persuading a friend or relative to let you shoot in theirs once the current coronavirus lockdown is over. And who knows? You may end up converting somebody else to the sport into the bargain.
“THE KEY TO ALL THIS IS TO FIND THE PERFECT BLEND OF SAFETY, SECURITY, FUN AND FREEDOM”
The key to unlocking all this is to find the perfect blend of safety, security, fun and freedom. The garden gives us a massive opportunity to enjoy our hobby easily and cheaply, but this comes with a huge commitment to safe shooting and our legal responsibilities to other people, their pets and their property.
THE LAW
While we have the legal right to shoot airguns on our own land, we must make sure that any pellets do not go over the boundary of our property. It is an offence to fire a pellet beyond the land where we have permission to shoot, unless the occupier of the neighbouring land has
