Peter Breheny from Derbyshire shoots benchrest rifle. He has Kennedy's Disease, a progressive wasting condition that has weakened his limbs.
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This 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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Vic 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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Deanna (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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Michael 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.
Read MoreMatt 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.
Read MoreStewart 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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14th February 2014
The 30th acoustic shooting facility for blind and visually-impaired shooters to be set up in Britain has been opened at Corrin Court, in Onchan on the Isle of Man. Hosted by the Manx Blind Welfare Society, the new facility has been set up by Ken Nash of the NSRA and British Blind Sport, and is operating under the title Manx Acoustic Shooting Club. .
There are full reports of the opening, attended by over 100 people, on BBC Isle of Man and IsleofMan.com, and an excellent video by Manx TV.
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