Alastair shot small bore very briefly at the tender age of 8, but his shooting career didn’t really get going until his time studying Engineering at Southampton University. Finding the sport much more relaxing than studying, he spent four years shooting, and captained the university rifle team from 1999-2000. On leaving university in 2002, he was persuaded to take up full-bore and has never looked back. He has competed at County level for 10 years, and has shot 8 National Matches, and 7 Mackinnon Matches for Wales. He was narrowly beaten to a Queens Silver Medal by fellow team-mate Jon Underwood a few years ago, and has ambitions to even the score…

This will be his 6th overseas tour, and his second DCRA meeting having toured there with the Welsh Rifle Team in 2007.