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Clay shooting, game shooting, the latest guns and the news that shapes the sport – Sporting Gun covers it all, first and in depth. When a new shotgun lands, when a shooting ground reopens or reshapes its layouts, when a cartridge is reformulated or a rule change hits registered clay competition, our team reports it before anyone else.
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Shotgun reviews, cartridge tests, shooting ground guides, coaching advice and competition results – if it affects your shooting, you’ll find it here. Our coverage spans sporting, skeet, trap and the full range of clay disciplines alongside game and rough shooting, plus the guns, chokes, cartridges and kit that go with them, reported by a team with hands-on access to the products and grounds they write about.
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Clay ShootingRally Clays: the new format aiming to make clay shooting watchable
Clay shooting has long struggled to capture a wider audience. Founder of Rally Clays, Simon Reinhold, explains why he believes the new format could finally bring jeopardy, rivalry and genuine spectato...
By Sporting Gun
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News150 not out: Fiocchi on cartridges, competition and the road beyond lead
A century and a half in, the Italian cartridge maker is streamlining its range and pouring effort into non-toxic loads. Its UK team explains what that means for clay and game shooters
By Sporting Gun
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Clay Shooting
Eaton Hall crowns its first TopGun champion
A record £400,000 prize fund brought more than 1,700 entries to Derbyshire for nine days of clay shooting, and produced a first TopGun champion few had predicted in Hungary's Tamás Jéri
By Matt Kidd
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Clay ShootingClay Shooting Classic and Sporting Gun Clubman return
Two long-dormant clay shooting competitions, the Clay Shooting Classic and the Sporting Gun Clubman Championship, return to Eaton Hall Shooting Ground in Derbyshire this October, with shooters able to...
By Sporting Gun
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Guest editorsGeorge Digweed MBE: an exclusive interview with the world’s greatest clay shot
With 28 World Championship titles, 19 European Championship victories and an MBE for services to shooting, George Digweed is widely regarded as the greatest clay shooter of all time. Sporting Gun sat ...
By Matt Kidd
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CartridgesBeyond steel: could Blue Shot cartridges be the future for classic guns?
Matt Kidd heads to Cornwall to test RC HP3 Blue Shot cartridges on farm corvids, exploring whether this bismuth-based lead-free option could make the transition away from lead easier for owners of old...
By Matt Kidd
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NewsBraxton Oliver: World Champion on bold calls, death metal and the targets still left to break
North Carolina's Braxton Oliver made history at the 2026 World English Sporting Championship in San Antonio, Texas – winning the overall title and qualifying alongside the first woman ever to reach ...
By Sporting Gun
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NewsKeeper rewarded with share of £2m estate
A Scottish gamekeeper who worked on Monreith House estate for decades has inherited a third of the property, prompting a family dispute over its future.
By Hollis Butler
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NewsGundog trainer Andy Cullen MBE dies aged 60
Tributes have poured in following the death of respected gundog trainer Andy Cullen MBE, founder of Laochin Gundogs, who died aged 60 after cancer.
By Hollis Butler
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NewsNon-lethal methods alone won’t save England’s red squirrels
England's red squirrels could disappear from the mainland within 25 years unless lethal grey squirrel control continues, according to a new recovery strategy.
By Hollis Butler
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