In common with all shooters, I am stunned by the awful killings by Derrick Bird in Cumbria yesterday. As people who use guns for sport and competition, we feel particularly horrified by these terrible events. It’s an appalling tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims, families and many others affected. In due time, answers [...]

Sitting in the CPSA’s boardroom the other day, waiting for a meeting to start, I was idly gazing at the rows of massive silver trophies when I spotted some bound copies of Shooting Magazine, "The Official Magazine of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association", which in those days it was. The book fell open at this [...]

Today I went over to my parents’ place, to see what the trail camera had picked up over the past week. It had snapped a roe deer and a fox, but with so little activity in the entire week it was clear the fox family had moved out. I was fairly sure I knew where [...]

High on a Welsh hillside, with opera legend Andrea Bocelli singing his heart out from the truck stereo, I shot a mouflon at 440 yards. It was a surreal moment. The quality of this soundclip is pretty awful, but it gives a sense of the atmosphere. Not a real mouflon of course. This was a [...]

Cripes! The Raptor Persecution Scotland blog is incandescent at the news that some licences may be issued to kill some buzzards in Scotland. The author betrays a degree of chip-on-shoulder syndrome with the phrase: It’s about time Roseanna Cunningham got up from her knees where she’s been busily licking the greasy balls of the rich [...]