I started off shooting Daisy BB rifles at school, I was being bullied badly and my then Form tutor had something to do with the Daisy BB association of Britain if i remember right.

A group of us started to shoot of a dinner time in the school hall, surrounded by the other pupils eating lunch, (you wouldn't get away with this now in a council run school) and the interest grew from there. His plan worked and I was away from the bullies of a dinner time, I learnt how to discipline my self and not get anxious.

Fast forward a year or two, he put me in touch with Bilbrook Air Rifle club and I started to shoot Bell Target & 10m Paper, this was until I discovered girls, beer and cars.......

A chance job in a pub where the landlord shot restarted my interest in shooting and I went down the shotgun route, before being volunteered for helping BASC at shows, then that lead to me joining the gun trade specialising in rifles and shotguns, and now nearly 18 years later I run the shop at John Knibbs where I have had to learn a lot about air rifles.

I wish I could thank Mr Evans my form tutor, without him I wouldn't be where I am now and I wouldn't have served on BASC council, met so many wonderful people and above all be doing a job I love.