Having written the Rough Rovers articles for Sporting Shooter over past five years I was initially disappointed to hear it was no longer going to exist in its own right. However, as a keen reader of Sporting Gun I was delighted to hear that the magazines were joining forces to produce a bigger, better and wider-reaching publication. For those of you not familiar with the Rough Rovers and the articles I write, we are a syndicate or club (I’m still not sure which) that was set up 10 years ago to seek out varied, affordable and down-to-earth shooting all over the country. Having lived and worked abroad for a good few years I was lucky enough to get back into shooting through joining our local DIY clay club, the odd invitation to a driven day from my father in law, and a very good friend’s father who ran a brilliant small shoot I got involved in. Being self employed with a young family, a mortgage and a house to renovate, there was never any money spare to spend on shooting. Then at th
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point have you to have a national consensus first before you can substitute something like this. how did the gun buy back, it seems like it s still a rolling program. how that worked and how did you entice people. how much money did they get in. it was an equation of the original weapon price. if you say there is no gun culture. we are a rural country. my state of queensland a rural part, two-thirds of us live outside the cities. so that s where we live and have our being. and so there is a culture which says i may need a rifle on my farm to deal with, you know, a wild animals or something that will affect the stock or rip things to pieces. that s fine. but if you ask your average farmer or your average sporting shooter who shoots clay targets and whatever, do i need a semi a umt? even those guys, in my country, including my father and those