MATTY WINS COMPETITION WITH 200-YEAR-OLD SHOTGUN! 

Students at Richmond School and Sixth Form College are involved in a huge range of activities in their local communities, ranging from the relatively mainstream like football, rugby, dance and music, to the slightly more niche. With the latter in mind, how about shooting clay pigeons with a 200-year-old muzzle loading shotgun?! 

Thanks to Tom, dad of Matty Partridge, Year 12 student at Richmond Sixth Form College, for the following report: 

“I just wanted to let you know that Matty recently won a round of the Scottish National Muzzle Loading and Black Powder Clay Pigeon Championships. 

Matty has always enjoyed shooting and was interested in shooting older guns. To that end we became members of the MLAGB – Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain.  

The shotgun branch of the MLAGB holds a number of competitions throughout the year at different locations, and their second round was at Cluny Clays, north of Edinburgh, Scotland. Matty, shooting a muzzle loading 14 bore shotgun and using black powder, won the single barrel event with 16/20. Matty’s gun is around 200 years old! 

He also came second in the breach loading single barrel event using cartridges but also using an old gun and with black powder. 

The school have always been very supportive of Matty’s shooting so I felt it was good to be able to share this!”