SHOOT LIKE AN OLYMPIAN

Olympic Skeet stretches a shooter’s ability to the limits. We look at this challenging discipline with a top shot at Bisley’s National Clay Shooting Centre

The National Clay Shooting Centre (NCSC) at Bisley Camp, run by the National Rifle Association, is only 30 miles from London and close to the M3 motorway. Established in 1890, Bisley has long been associated with target rifle shooting but also boasts impressive clayshooting grounds. There you can find trap and skeet disciplines at the NCSC, and Sporting clays at the Bisley Shooting Ground. Clayshooting has taken place at Bisley since the 1920s. The NCSC, with its trademark “tented” layouts, was purpose built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, in which 15 year old Charlotte Kerwood went home with a Gold medal in double trap. Fourteen years later the NCSC is still going strong, catering for trap and skeet disciplines, and going through more than one million clays per year. Set…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2016

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