There are all sorts of reasons we take up shooting and this article, while I hope also being informative, highlights the therapeutic side of the sport we love.
Meet my friend, Shelly. Shelly is a country girl with dogs, horses, and two teenage girls. She found herself widowed with little or no warning and, as you might think, was finding life a bit of a challenge and sinking into the depths. I was walking our dogs with her one morning when she announced she’d always wanted to shoot. Here was I, a shooting instructor, who’d just suffered two heart attacks and lost any ‘mojo’ that I used to have.