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Target shooting at a range is no more dangerous, and slightly less complicated, than bar billiards, shove ha’penny or darts. And because of the headphones it’s completely absorbing and strangely calming. Ammunition is expensive – for some high calibre guns, as much as a dollar a cartridge. Shooting demands such concentration that it seems to me the perfect recreation for a writer, a relief from sitting at a desk and – as I am doing now – trying to imagine the next sentence.