LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN.
In my old age I have, to my own surprise and probably the surprise of my friends, become a keen shooter of clay pigeons. I am neither particularly good nor outstandingly bad at it. If I am on form I might manage, say, 40 out of 50 targets; if form has deserted me I will struggle to break half of those 50 clays. I regularly shoot with friends who are much better at it than I am, which, as it happens, is not the point of mentioning this unexpected geriatric enthusiasm. What interests me here is the
