Mitchell Brooker-Smith is a promising young British shooter. He is 16 years old and comes from Gloucestershire. Having started shooting at the age of 12, he now shoots Olympic Skeet for England and Great Britain.
As I write this article we are in May and it looks like we are going to be under restrictions for a lot longer. Boris Johnson has announced that the lockdown won’t be lifted at a stroke; instead the government will ease the restrictions gradually. Personally I think that’s wise in the circumstances. Like everyone in the sport, I was really hoping we were going to be given the opportunity to leave our homes and enjoy the smell of cartridge smoke and the sound of gun fire – but at the time of writing we must hold out a little longer.