Sporting Shooter

Nick’s picks

IT’S A LITTLE presumptuous to suggest what Nick’s favourite things were but he did make it pretty clear where his preferences lay and it was equally obvious that you didn’t have to cast around in all directions to find them. Nick kept it simple; he was a minimalist who didn’t need all kinds of extraneous stuff on his belt or in his pack.

 was more about cartridges than firearms, too. He referred to most of his many rifles by their calibre instead

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