Matt Kidd

Managing editor of Sporting Gun since 2025, Matt succeeded Paul Austin and runs the magazine alongside a monthly guest editor, a chair filled recently by Andy Crow, George Digweed, Nathan Hales, Vinnie Jones, Jonny Carter and Ben Randall.

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Latest articles by Matt Kidd

Shooting
The 200-pigeon hope that became 78 hard-won birds, and why a footpath and a pheasant pen decided it
A week’s reconnaissance had found the flightline over the beans. Then a public footpath, a pheasant pen and a row of houses ruled the field out, and Sporting Gun’s guest editor Dan…
7 October 2026

Matt Kidd

The 200-pigeon hope that became 78 hard-won birds, and why a footpath and a pheasant pen decided it

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