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How to find the right coach

In these strange times while we’re all still in lockdown, some of you may have found yourselves thinking about how to improve your shooting, as and when we can get back to some sort of normality.

This is a subject that infuriates the proper professionals. It is a topic that the late Ed Watson — Dr Watson, Shooting Gazette — was very vocal about and rightly so.

For many people looking to improve their shooting — or those starting to learn to shoot — it is very easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes, be misguided and throw away your money.

Five-minute wonder

It has become all too easy for any chancer to pay some money and attend one of the various instructing courses offered by the shooting organisations. On passing this five-minute wonder, they then consider themselves fully qualified know-it-alls in whichever discipline they choose.

They can

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