Mike’s shooting career started in the Glasgow Academy CCF and the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ACF. After several years of competing in pistol events after leaving school, Mike returned to Target Rifle for the Millennium Meeting at Bisley in 2000 and reached the Queen’s Final as a Tyro. He has been hooked on full-bore rifle ever since, competing in six more Queen’s Finals to date. Mike has shot for Scotland on numerous occasions, with eight appearances in the National Match and five in the Mackinnon. Mike has competed in the Channel Islands and at the World Championships in Australia, as well as four visits to the USA to compete in the Berger South West Nationals in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to Target Rifle, Mike is also a keen Match Rifle competitor – he has shot for Scotland in the Elcho eleven times, once for Great Britain in the Woomera Match, and won the Hopton in 2013.
Target shooting now runs in the family – Mike is married to Lorna, who is a rifle instructor in addition to her duties as a primary teacher, and their son James shot in his first Imperial Meeting last year. Outside of shooting, Mike is a partner in a law firm in Edinburgh and specialises in Construction Law.