What you cannot learn on the peg

What does it take to be a top Shot? How do you become an all-rounder? We can all advise accordingly on how to improve your shooting, whether that be practice, finding the right instructor for lessons or having your gun fitted. But there are things that can’t be learned at a clay ground or standing on the peg that really give the top shooters an edge.

When we use the term ‘allrounder’, there is so much to consider. It’s all very well shooting pheasants and partridges but counties vary, topography changes and weather is rarely consistent. Grouse shooting in North Yorkshire is very different from shooting grouse in Inverness or the Angus Glens. Shooting pigeons can vary over different crops, conditions and times of year. With wildfowling you have various species and techniques, flighting ducks of an evening in difficult light or trying for that goose on the coast.

All-rounders are rarer