So your club’s closed, your permission is temporarily off-limits and your sport is on hold, right? Well, if you have access to a garden, and that also includes a smaller one, then shooting can very much continue.
Unlike a regular shooting range, a garden is always open for business. With a few legal and safety points adhered to, the garden is an excellent place to shoot our airguns, allowing us to plink to our heart’s content, practise our shooting skills or even set up and test a new rifle and scope combo.
If you don’t own a garden of your own, try persuading a friend or relative to let you shoot in theirs once the current coronavirus lockdown is over. And who knows? You may end up converting somebody else…