Shooting Times & Country

A shot at the title

TWO PART SERIES 2 of 2

WAS IT AN unmitigated disaster? Well, no. It wasn’t. In fact, from a social perspective I would say that it was rather successful. Met some nice people. Compared notes. Looked at guns. Watched some stylish shooting. Had a lot of fun. Ballistically? Could do better, as Nanny would say, but we’ll come to that in due course.

I told you that I had entered the British .410 Championships as part of my training for the British side-by-side event, so we’ll begin at the West Midlands Shooting Ground in Shropshire with a handy little Lincoln over-and-under and cartridges to match. As an unassociated shooter I was assigned a squad, whom I found loitering

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