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Shooting students from Harper Adams!

Lady gun, Lucinda Holdsworth, awaits the first birds of the day.

By Martin Puddifer

Friday, 26 June 2009

Shooting Gazette visits Mynachdy, on the Isle of Anglesey, a shoot managed and financed by a group of former Harper Adams students.

Lucinda Holdsworth stands pensively on Inland Sea's pebble beach. Shifting her weight between brown shooting boots, she trains her eyes along the top of the serrated wall of rock and grass that towers above her.

The small, dipping movements of her slight frame loosen the smooth pale grey stones as weary strings of black seaweed behind are sucked into the icy water by receding waves that explode into hissing foam.

The sky is an immaculate baby blue, save the fraying cotton clouds and yellow orb spilling light down onto the bottle green sea.

She continues to spy the elevated horizon when her eyes are suddenly drawn towards an alien sound.

Something is cutting through the air beyond the cliff top. Then a human voice calls out. As Lucinda's eyes narrow she begins to bring the stock to her cheek, there is a thunk as she draws back the safety catch... and then they come.