Shooting Times & Country

Blindingly obvious

THE RECENT TRAGIC shooting on a film set in the US is a reminder of the golden rule when handling firearms, captured so eloquently by Mark Hanbury Beaufoy MP:

If a sportsman true you’d be

Listen carefully to me…

Never, never let your gun

Pointed be at anyone.

That it may unloaded be

Matters not the least to me.

During a lifetime of shooting I have, on a few rare occasions, found myself looking down the barrels of a loaded shotgun: it’s not a happy experience. On each

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