With a lifetime’s experience and love of shooting in all its guises, Holland & Holland’s Steve Rawsthorne is perfectly placed to help improve our shooting skills. Here, he introduces himself and his new series…
For the last 50 years, my passion has been shooting, in all its forms: game, rough, (sometimes very rough!), competitive clay shooting and stalking. When I was about 11 years old a chap was sitting under a hedge shooting crows in the fields at the back of our house and I wandered out and got talking to him. That conversation was to change my life, although I did not know it at the time. He and his father took me under their wing and got me started.
I then got my father interested and within a year we had leased a piece of Forestry Commission land and were running a small rough DIY syndicate. So when you are out shooting sometime and you bump into a youngster, take the time to talk to them and encourage them – they are the future of our sport and you never know where it will lead.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Sporting Shooter.
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