Ben Cartwright shot rifles in his youth and more recently has become a keen clay shot. After settling on his ideal clay gun, he has decided to invest in a custom stock.
The World Record for the most walnuts cracked against the head in one minute is 181, by a Pakistani man in 2016. For the love of God, why?
It was the middle of March and I was sitting in a coffee shop, halfway into my return trip to Midlands Gun Services (MGS). I was doing that coffee shop thing: sitting on my own but finding something incredibly interesting to look at on my phone. In my case, doing some research on walnut stocks when Google enlivened my day with this hitherto unknown fact.
Checking the fit of the partly finished new stock in the MGS workshop