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Seated shooting

Jean-Paul Gaudin has featured in an article I wrote about the work he’s doing advising game shoots and shooting grounds on how to make our sport open and inclusive for wheelchair users. He also has a YouTube channel called The Seated Gun that features his exploits in the field.

Dan Parker has been featured on the cover of the magazine. They are both self-motivated tenacious characters. Both have had unfortunate spinal injuries and now shoot game, pigeons and clays from a seated position. JP has been shooting seated for the past 10 years and Dan for the past 18 months. We thought they could swap ideas and techniques that may help each other.

Dan has a T4 complete injury and JP’s is now a level L1 incomplete. Simply put, JP has more use of his lower body than Dan. Dan has adopted a single-handed shooting style as he feels he needs his left

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