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    REGRETS? HE HAS A FEW

    May 19, 2022 5 minutes

    Wouldn't it be great if we could travel back in time and have a quiet word with our younger selves? Avoid that particular relationship, we might advise. Stay out of the pub on Christmas Eve 1998. Never drink bourbon on an empty stomach. That sort of thing.

    Exactly three years ago, I began my journey as a born-again airgunner. Regular readers of my Barn Door column will know that I'm a magnet for incidents, embarrassment and small-scale calamity. So yes, there are some things I wish I could tell the 2019 version of myself; the things not to buy, the actual injuries to avoid. Perhaps new and returning airgun shooters in 2022 will be able to learn from my many and occasionally painful mistakes.

    JOIN THE CLUB

    Let's start with the biggy. Surprisingly, it's not the gun-buying one. It's the club-joining one. If I could

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