Clay shotguns: expert reviews and buying advice for every level
The right clay gun can transform your shooting. Whether you’re stepping onto a sporting layout for the first time or chasing your next classification breakthrough, the gun in your hands makes a difference – and choosing well is where we come in.
Sporting Gun’s clay shotgun section delivers independent reviews, head-to-head comparisons and practical buying advice across the full range of guns available to UK clay shooters. From affordable entry-level over-and-unders to finely engineered competition guns used at the highest levels of the sport, our experienced reviewers assess balance, handling, trigger quality, reliability and value to give you a verdict worth reading.
Brands covered include Beretta, Browning, Caesar Guerini, Perazzi, Krieghoff, Miroku and Rizzini, across Sporting, Skeet and Trap configurations.
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Our brand new show features a technique section on how to hit driven targets, followed by news, a Miroku MK38 review, and finally Lyalvale Express Power Red 27g cartridges on test!
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Tegan Hart is a 16-year-old Olympic Trap and Down the Line (DTL) shooter; she had a wonderful 2022 season, adding some impressive medals to her collection!
William Gilbert is a young Trap and Sporting shooter who has stormed through his last few years of competition, adding some stunning scores and several medals to the cabinet!
Hermione Burns is a 17-year-old British Trap shooter with a very bright future ahead of her, and and high-profile several wins under her belt already.
Eighteen-year-old Olympic Trap shooter Hollie Lumsden shot regularly for Team GB in 2022, and racked up a great list of wins and placings both abroad and in domestic competitions.
Leah Southall is a young, British Trap shooter who racked up an impressive medal haul in 2022, including Junior Ladies Olympic Trap British Champion!
Young Olympic Skeet shooter Bethany Norton had a fabulous 2022 season shooting and winning clay competitions at home and abroad.
Amber Hill and Lucy Hall brought home an impressive haul of medals from international events during the 2022 clay shooting season, and the cherry on the cake was an Olympic quota place each!
Emily Damment meets young GB Olympic Skeet shooter, Arran Eccleston, to find out what it takes to remain on the podium through the transition from Juniors to Seniors.
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