Like most of us, Charlie and I had wonderful plans for 2020 that have been thwarted by the coronavirus crisis. This unprecedented lockdown has, however, given us an opportunity to find alternative ways to pass the time. As I am unable to go shooting, this has meant a rediscovery of the joys of catapulting.
As an adolescent full of mischief, I enjoyed playing with a catapult and testing my skills. My friends and I used to play our own version of paintballing, with grapes being the ideal projectile. We could certainly bag a running human target at range with a grape (my adult self does not, of course, condone such behaviour), as well as being proficient tin-can hunters, with a pocket full of the smoothest pebbles you could scavenge. Despite…
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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2020