Then and now
When the editor speculated on what us pigeon shooters might have to look forward to in 2021, the seed of an article was planted. However, I decided that before I wrote it I would reread Archie Coats’s book to see what it was like in his day, 60-plus years ago, compared with our times.
Pigeon Shooting was written in 1963 and is widely regarded as ‘the pigeon shooters’ bible’. Archie was the first person to make a living shooting pigeon, so needed to be good at
