• peterbreheny1Peter Breheny from Derbyshire shoots benchrest rifle.  He has Kennedy's Disease, a progressive wasting condition that has weakened his limbs. 
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  • scoutwithprosthesis1This young Scout was born without a left hand.  When he took an interest in shooting, which is very popular in the Scout movement, Hampshire Scouts helped his local club to find a solution. 
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  • vicmorris1Vic Morris lives in south Wales and is paralysed from the neck down as the result of an accident.  With the aid of an 'equaliser' device invented by his coach, John Kelman, Vic shoots pistol and rifle. 
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  • MattSkelhon1Matt Skelhon shot to fame when he grabbed gold at the Bejiing Paralympic Games and proved it was no fluke by claiming silver and bronze at London 2012.

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  • Di CoatesDeanna (Di) Coates lives in Hampshire, shoots air rifle from a wheelchair, and is one of our most successful disabled international athletes. 
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  • michaelwhapples1Michael Whapples from Leicestershire is blind and shoots air rifle.  In 2011 he was the first British shooter ever to compete at the Open European Shooting Championships for the Vision Impaired, held at Nitra, Slovakia. 

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  • stewartnangle1Stewart Nangle, a Lancastrian, is pictured shooting .22 pistol.  What the photograph does not show is that at the time one of his legs was fitted with a metal frame that was bolted into the bones. 
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Michael Whapples

michaelwhapples1Michael Whapples from Leicestershire is blind and shoots air rifle.  In 2011 he was the first British shooter ever to compete at the Open European Shooting Championships for the Vision Impaired, held at Nitra, Slovakia. 

Michael is one of the few blind/visually impaired shooters in Britain who shoot 'free-standing'; i.e. without a supporting stand to rest the rifle on.  This is why he is wearing the full set of shooting clothing (jacket, trousers and boots) worn by non-disabled people who shoot in the standing position. 

The acoustic equipment used by Shooting for the Blind employs a sensor fitted to the rifle which calculates where the point of aim is on the target, and translates that information into an audible signal that the shooter hears through headphones.  The higher the pitch of the signal, the closer the aim is to the bull. 

In 2013 Michael was appointed Chairman of the Shooting Committee of the International Blind Sports Association.  In that rôle he is working on developing international competition for acoustic shooting.  It is hoped that one day it will be accepted as a Paralympic discipline.  

You can read more about Michael's experiences as a VI shooter in his blog A shot in the dark.

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