Paul Childerley is holding a pheasant shoot with a difference. As well as the driven birds on his Bedfordshire estate, his friends from Aimpoint have brought along a driven shooting simulator and set it up in his shooting lodge. His guests try out the GAIM shooting simulator, while GAIM’s developer at Aimpoint, Erik Gustavsson, pits himself against Paul’s pheasants.
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