Not on target

I received my copy of Clay Shooting magazine today with a letter stating its future incorporation into Sporting Gun magazine. I’m very sad to read this news and fear that it will just become totally marginalised over time.

This happened to Target Gun magazine several decades ago and now there is not a single magazine dedicated to this aspect of Shooting. I subscribe to Rifle Shooter magazine but it’s a poor substitute and I have to say I have no interest whatsoever in shooting live quarry.

Is there any reasonable chance Clay

Shooting magazine will be relaunched as a separate publication when we return to ‘normal’?

John Cooper, via email

Ed - I remember Target Gun magazine when it was edited by Geoffrey Hoyle and later by Richard Atkins. I used to read it as a kid and did 10 metre air rifle shooting with a Feinwerkbau Model 300. I learned about the evolution of firearms through John Warboys articles (if I remember rightly) .

Happily Richard will still be contributing to Clay Shooting magazine through Sporting

Gun. Sporting Gun has a lot of clay shooting content and it was thought that the two magazines would complement each other. I’m afraid Clay Shooting as a standalone publication has gone. Why not give Sporting

Gun a try? In its glory days it covered lots of competitive clay shooting and I see the incorporation of Clay Shooting magazine into Sporting Gun as a return to those days.