Having been in the shooting industry for almost 10 years now, it is exciting and heartening to see the increase in female shooters and the general acceptance that it is a sport for all. There is no doubt that the rise in women donning their tweeds and taking to the peg has provided retailers a whole new market of potential customers and this does leave me wondering whether some products, such as ladies’ guns, are necessary or not.
I dabbled in clay shooting at the tender age of 11 but it wasn’t until my late teenage years that I started shooting regularly, with my first gun a tired, second-hand yet functional 20-bore Beretta Silver Pigeon. This did the job for a few months until I decided that I wanted something more substantial, and I moved onto a 16-bore round body William
