Great Britain Rifle Team

USA & Canada 2026

USA & Borden, Ontario, Canada

Meet the Team

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Captain

James Mehta

James Mehta

Cap Number

906

Home Country

Scotland

Big 5

17

James Mehta

James started shooting at Framlingham College in his early teens. He won the Cadet Rifle Aggregate and was an Atheling in 1975, and then continued at Edinburgh University where he was the Captain of Full Bore. A career in dentistry and three children interrupted shooting for about twenty years, and since then he’s been trying to make up for lost time.

He was a member of Lindsay Peden’s GB team in Canada in 2016 that still holds the record for the Commonwealth Match (6 off), and has also toured in New Zealand, South Africa, USA, and the Channel Islands where he was the Captain of the 2023 NRA team. Now retired, and the kids have grown up. he intends to keep touring for as long as possible and keep in touch with all the friends he has made across the world in our great sport.

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Main Coach

Reg Roberts

Reg Roberts

Cap Number

707

Home Country

Ireland

Big 5

25

Reg Roberts

Reg is a Chartered Accountant who owns a recruitment agency in the South of England. Although Australian by birth, he arrived in the UK in 1983 and the country has suffered ever since!  He started his shooting career as a cadet in 1971 when laid up with a rugby injury.

Reg has toured overseas on 12 previous GB teams including 8 to Canada, one to Australia in 2005 as Captain and was a target coach for the GB Palma winning teams in 2007 and 2015. His personal achievements include 26 HM Sovereign's final badges, 6 Grand Aggregate crosses and 12 St.George’s badges. Inducted into the ‘big five’ in 2016, he Captained the winning Kolapore match that year with a record score on ICFRA targets.

His is married to Jennifer and has four children, two of which, Nick and Tim, are already avid fullbore shots. Reg’s other hobbies include fly fishing, share investing and the development of a golf resort in British Columbia.

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Coach

Christopher Heales

Christopher Heales

Cap Number

943

Home Country

England

Big 5

4

Christopher Heales

Christopher has been shooting since first firing an air rifle in the garden, from then he’s been to Germany, Canada, Trinidad and Guyana. He’s a regular member of the Norfolk team and has represented England in the National, Lawrence and the European long range match. Closer to home he shoots with the West Suffolk rifle club. This will be his fourth visit to Canada and first to the USA.

When not shooting or at work, time is spent walking the dog or on his bik. Time is also spent cooking and dabbling with home brewing. Happily married with two grown up children.

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Team Member

Nigel BallGC SM SC

Nigel Ball

Cap Number

721

Home Country

England

Big 5

69

Nigel BallGC SM SC

Nigel’s shooting career began in the Royal Navy, where he won the Queens Medal with Service Rifle. He then branched out into Target Rifle which is now his main event and thinks that one day he will be quite good at it if he practices hard. He has gained several Grand Agg, Queens Final and George’s badges in his time but it is team shooting he relishes most. In his opinion there is nothing like a well-oiled team that flows and supports each other, to perform to the best, hence his delight on being in this team with a blend of youth and experience all willing and eager to demonstrate their shooting skills.

Nigel is no stranger to Canada having been on a variety of GB and England teams during the last 34 years. It was his first official team there in 1991 that gave him an appetite to tour and he relishes the chance to return and compete with old friends.

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Team Member

Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper

Cap Number

940

Home Country

Ireland

Big 5

17

Michael Cooper

Michael started shooting as a Cadet in the Campbell College CCF and is now the shooting officer in the Contingent. He is a regular for Ireland in the National and Mackinnon matches and is a member of the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Squad.

His individual successes include winning seven Northern Ireland Championships, the Jersey Summer Meeting, City/Royal Navy Open and in 2022 Michael was the first competitor in 26 years to achieve the Irish double, by winning both the Irish Open and Northern Ireland Championships in the same year, a feat he repeated in 2024. In 2018 he was proud to Captain and shoot for his club team when they won the Astor County Championships for the first time. Michael is also a member of the URA Fullbore Committee, the governing body for fullbore target rifle shooting in Northern Ireland. This is the Belfast man’s second tour to Canada, having been on Andrew Lothian's team in 2023. With many relatives living in Canada, it is a country close to his heart.

A professional photographer, Michael is grateful for the support of his ever patient wife Sara and their children Amy, Robbie and Harry who are all studying at university.

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Team Member

Luke Crisp

Luke Crisp

Home Country

England

Big 5

2

Luke Crisp

Luke started shooting in 2012, where he participated in the sport through the Air Cadets until 2014 before taking a considerable break from the sport. Resuming his involvement in late 2021 once commissioned in the RAF, he rediscovered his passion for the sport through the RAF Target Rifle Club and competed in his first Imperial Meeting in 2022.

Since then, Luke has represented the UK Armed Forces in South Africa in 2024, England during The National Match in 2024 and 2025, and the NRA during the 2025 NRA Team to the Channel Islands Tour. This will be Luke’s first GB tour and he is looking forward to being part of a senior touring squad.

Off the range, Luke serves in the RAF as an Aero Systems Engineering Officer. Currently stationed at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire, he is a Junior Engineering Officer on Chinook helicopters. Outside of work, his interests lie in Nordic skiing, cycling and golf.

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Team Member

Rupert Fitzsimmons

Rupert Fitzsimmons

Home Country

England

Big 5

2

Rupert Fitzsimmons




Rupert learnt to shoot at RGS Guildford and continued to hone his skills as a member Cambridge University Rifle Association, where he was awarded a few half blues and a history degree.





Rupert has shot for several counties, competed in two sovereign's finals, and represented England in the National and the Mackinnon. In 2025 he travelled with the NRA team to the Channel Islands where he won (and lost) several tie shoots, ultimately coming first in the Jersey Rifle Association's Crabbé Aggregate as well as a number of individual competitions. He also achieved his highest finish in the Grand Aggregate at Bisley, finishing 6th. Additionally, he has won several trophies at club and county opens through the years.

When not shooting fullbore rifles Rupert dabbles in smallbore shooting, rock climbing, and taking his spaniel for runs in the countryside. He is employed as head of history at Winchester College in Hampshire and continues, when he finds the time, to conduct his own archival research.

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Team Member

Simon Hayton

Simon Hayton

Cap Number

942

Home Country

England

Big 5

3

Simon Hayton

Like many, Simon signed up for "shooting" as a Thursday activity at Cranleigh Prep School, learning with great bewilderment on the venerable No. 8 cadet rifle. Annual outings at the OCRC vs School match gave him a taste for competitive TR shooting, which he was lucky enough to take up at Newcastle University and earn his first county cap for Northumberland.

Work and skiing took over for a while, but Simon's passion for shooting was fully reignited when he was persuaded to enter the 2019 Imperial Meeting, going on to earn his first top-50 finish in the Grand Aggregate and win the Daily Telegraph Cup with a mere 75.15.

Since then, Simon has gone on to be part of the England Lions programme, toured Canada with the 2023 GB team, and the USA with the 2024 England team. He has also taken up the reins as secretary of the OC Rifle Club, and volunteers as a guest coach at Cranleigh School. When not shooting TR, Simon enjoys smallbore, skiing, mountaineering, and works at a consultancy serving the energy industry in Croydon.

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Team Member

Bruce Logan

Bruce Logan

Cap Number

847

Home Country

Scotland

Big 5

46

Bruce Logan

Bruce started shooting at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland as a games option that kept him indoors in the rugby season off parade for CCF.  His first Bisley was 1985, and it’s always had that “road trip” feeling.  He carried on shooting at Cambridge University where his main contribution to student shooting was to co-found the Rats.  After a brief hiatus while working abroad and dabbling with Match Rifle has been shooting TR ever since.


He mainly shoots with Wandsworth and Scotland.  This will be his first GB tour (although he did wangle a cap as Kolapore Adjutant), so is looking forward to actually shooting for GB. He has shot in US and Canada before, but not at Camp Perry or Borden.


Shooting has also influenced his life in that’s how he met his wife Anne-Marie, an alumnus of Greshams, and that background is probably the only reason he could get away with a 3 week tour/shooting holiday.

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Team Member

Susie Luckman

Susie Luckman

Home Country

England

Big 5

4

Susie Luckman

Susie was lucky enough to be selected for a number of GBU25 and England teams when she was younger. These wonderful teams and tours took her to Canada, USA, Australia and South Africa and cemented a lifelong love of shooting. Susie never quite made it to a full GB cap though…..

As life became more complicated, Susie's focus shifted to making sure the smallest Luckmans learned to love Bisley as much as the parents did. She would still enter the Donegall and the Sovereign’s prize each year, but otherwise her shooting took a temporary step back.

More recently, and as a result of David’s undeterable encouragement, Susie started to enter more competitions, which led to a fantastic tour to the Channel Islands with the NRA team in 2025 and undeniably unexpected 4th place finish in the King’s in 2024. And now she is delighted to be selected to represent Great Britain in both Canada and the US, proving you are never really too old to do what you love!

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Team Member

Luca O'Flynn

Luca O'Flynn

Cap Number

952

Home Country

Ireland

Big 5

5

Luca O'Flynn

Luca started shooting in 2013, at the age of 12, after he joined the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. Starting on air rifle for two years, he graduated first to smallbore and then to fullbore a year later. He shot with the Ireland team and the GB U25s shortly thereafter, and toured Canada with the Athelings in 2018 and with GB in 2025.

Luca is now no stranger to touring. He was selected to join the NRA team to the Channel Islands, first in 2020, but the tour was postponed and then sadly cancelled due to COVID. Eventually he went in 2022, in a team that went undefeated, which had not been done for over ten years. He has since been Reserve on the 2023 GB team to Canada and was part of the winning GB U25 team in South Africa for the 2024 World Championships, as well as visiting Borden in 2025 with Paul Gray's team.

Having completed his degree in Product Design at Loughborough University, Luca is now the shooting master at Epsom College.

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Team Member

James Postle

James Postle

Cap Number

944

Home Country

England

Big 5

4

James Postle

James started shooting at prep school aged 11 and continued with small-bore at Brighton College, but it wasn’t until he commenced his studies at the University of Reading that he started visiting Bisley. In 1995 James was appointed Shooting Master at Epsom College and enjoyed 13 years coaching Epsom VIIIs to 7 Ashburton wins and 5 second places. He has kept a connection with youth shooting as Director of the British Cadet Rifle Team (The Athelings) since 2011 and is the GB U25 Team Manager for the Australia Match in October 2026 and the U25 World Long Range Championships at Bisley in 2028.




Over the last 9 years James has made more time to focus on his individual and team shooting and is now County Captain of Gloucestershire. He was Captain of the 2025 UK NRA Team to the Channel Islands and is delighted that four members from that tour are now gaining their first GB cap on this team.









He is very much looking forward to a first trip to compete at Camp Perry, along with what will be his fifth tour to Canada, having been Adjutant of the Athelings in 2001, Commandant in 2010, a member of the England Team in 2019 and the Great Britain Team in 2023. Outside of shooting, he has just completed 13 years at Millfield School where he was Deputy Head and is now an Education Consultant advising on pupil recruitment in the UK and internationally.

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Team Member

Sasha Radkovskii

Sasha Radkovskii

Cap Number

953

Home Country

England

Big 5

1

Sasha Radkovskii

Sasha first started shooting at Sevenoaks School in 2012, then continuing with the Old Framlinghamians and the British Young Shooters Association, but did not compete as an individual at Bisley until the 2019 Imperial Meeting. He finally broke his T by making it into the 2020 St George's Final and now has 4 Final appearances across King's and George's, as well as winning the 2025 Sunday Aggregate at Bisley.

Sasha is pleased to be on his second GB tour in as many years, and is looking forward to returning to Canada and visiting the USA for the first time. Having toured with James Mehta to the Channel Islands in 2023, he is happy to have the opportunity to maintain friendships with overseas teams and be able to travel as part of another high performing team.

When off the ranges, Sasha is completing his Masters in Philosophy at Warwick University and runs his own investment and advisory firm to advise private technology companies on growth strategy, corporate governance and ethics. Outside of work, his interests lie in skiing, diving and travelling the world.

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Team Member

Jon UnderwoodGM GC2 SM2

Jon Underwood

Cap Number

745

Home Country

England

Big 5

79

Jon UnderwoodGM GC2 SM2

Jon’s passion for target shooting started at the tender age of 11 at Aldro School on a 20 yard range in a converted greenhouse. Jon learnt about fullbore shooting and ‘Bisley’ when he moved to the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, continuing at London University.

Jon has achieved a number of notable successes over the years including winning the Bisley Grand Aggregate, the H.M. Queen’s Prize, and the Governor General’s Prize. He has also been a consistent member of many successful teams representing England and Great Britain, with the last two years comprising a GB tour to Canada in 2025 and the 2024 World Championships in South Africa with the GB Palma team, where he picked up third place in the World Long Range Individual Championships Final.

Back home, Jon looks after his family’s many business interests, including a tool hire business. In his ‘spare time’ he has returned to RGS Guildford to help coach the school’s rifle team.

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Reserve

Guy Hart

Guy Hart

Cap Number

117

Home Country

England

Big 5

7

Guy Hart

No biography available.

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Reserve

Sam Livingston

SL

Home Country

England

Big 5

1

Sam Livingston

Sam started shooting around the age of 14 in the Air Training Corps. During this time, he gained sponsorship to compete in the Imperial Meeting, though admittedly, the centre of the target often proved elusive. Sam took a break from shooting for five years whilst at university, returning in 2017 to compete at club and county level. In 2019, he again competed in the Imperial Meeting, and despite eight years out, stumbled his way into the Queen’s Final. Sam has shot in numerous Astor, KGV, and County shoots for Northumberland and Durham.

In 2021, Sam joined the Royal Air Force Target Rifle Club in 2022, touring to Jersey with the RAFTRC, and to South Africa with the UK Armed Forces team in 2024, continuing UKAF representation at several matches at Bisley. For England, Sam has competed at the European Long Range Championship in 2024, joined the Lions squad in 2024/25 & 2025/26, and been a reserve in the National Match in 2025.

Sam has made the last two St George’s and King’s finals, with hopes of finishing in the top 50 in the King’s final this year.

Sam’s next tour is with the NRA team to the Channel Islands in early 2026.

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Reserve

Ryan Warren

Ryan Warren

Home Country

England

Big 5

2

Ryan Warren

Ryan first discovered the precision and discipline of smallbore rifle shooting during his school years, a passion that rekindled decades later when he returned to the sport. Progressing from .22 to 300m ISSF and then to fullbore target rifle, he competed in his first full TR Imperial in 2020. Since then, he has been gaining momentum at Bisley, including a Top 25 St George’s finish in 2023, second places in both the Palma Aggregate and Varley, and a Top 50 Grand Aggregate result in 2024.




Ryan was delighted to secure his England caps in the Lawrence and the National in 2025, following a reserve position in the National the previous year. He is currently a member of the English Lions Squad and an active member of the London & Middlesex Rifle Association, where he also represents the County of London. His first touring experience with the NRA Rifle Team to the Channel Islands in 2025 has sparked a keen enthusiasm for future tours, and he is proud to have been selected as a reserve for the GB Rifle Team to Canada in 2026.














Away from the range, Ryan works in the (re)insurance and financial services industries and enjoys family life with his wife and two daughters, one of whom has already taken up the rifle.

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