Shooting Times & Country

Keep your trousers away from the wash

“Some think hi-tech gear works like Harry Potter’s cloak and makes them disappear”

Airgun shooters have developed quite a distinctive dress code over the past couple of decades and it tends to revolve rather heavily around camouflage. We get a lot of flak for our fondness for dressing like trees, but concealment is important when you need to sneak within very close range of wary critters with finely tuned survival instincts.

While I am not entirely sure why so many airgun shooters regard camouflage patterns as for Game Fair attendance, they do help to hide the human form among the green and brown hues of the British countryside. That said, any sombre colour will achieve a similar effect if you keep

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