WHY CAN’T I GET ON TO A SHOOT?

As a newer reader of the magazine, but an almost middle-aged shooting enthusiast, I am thoroughly fed up with my inability to find shooting clubs or venues.

As a publican, I find it strange that the second the pubs reopened after the COVID-19 lockdown, everyone wanted me to be trading and ‘getting on with stuff’, restrictions and difficulties aside.

Fast forward to now and trying to get on to a shoot is almost impossible with the closed-door syndicate mindset — and the clubs are just as guilty of not encouraging or allowing people to join.

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