PETER Wilson’s reputation in the shooting world continues to grow in the build-up to this summer’s Olympic Games on home soil.

Just a few days after setting a new world record score to win the men’s double trap at the Shotgun World Cup in Tucson, Arizona, the Sherborne hot-shot attended the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association Awards where he was nominated for Clay Shooter of the Year.

Ian Peel, a silver medallist from Sydney 2000, was the special guest for the evening and although Wilson lost out on the award to George Digweed MBE, his recent exploits in the US were given huge recognition.

The 25-year-old hit 198 of 200 targets, beating the former record of 196 set in 2009.

Digweed, who secured two World Championship wins in 2011 as well as a clutch of other titles, including the British Open Sporting and Triple Classic in Texas, could not be at the event to pick up the honour due to being in action at the French FITASC Grand Prix.

Wilson has now turned his attentions to the forthcoming Olympic Test Event, where he is hopeful his recent form can continue.

He said: “Now I’m back in the UK, I’m going to have a week off and then start preparing for the Olympic Test Event with a visit to London to have a peek around the actual ranges and see what is what and where is where.

“When I first went a couple of months ago and it was still very much under construction, so this time I hope I am going to get a really good idea of what the ranges are like. I’ll probably take a few pictures, nothing too serious or formal, and just have a wander.

“I will then start training, probably back in Dorset and then up in London.

“After that competition, I’ll then fly to Lonato in Italy to shoot the third World Cup of the year, have another week off, and then fly to Cyprus.

“Following Cyprus, I’ll probably have about a month off and train in Dubai with my coach Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum.

“If not Dubai, we’ll find a base camp somewhere nearer, probably in Europe because of the temperature – we want to try and match the temperature of the UK at the beginning of August.

“It’s crazy I know, leaving the country when the Olympics are being hosted here, but it’s more a case of trying to find a country where the temperature and the background are very similar.

“For us in double trap, it’s crucial that the background is as similar as possible, so it might be somewhere like Germany.

“They have a green netting in Germany which is fairly similar to the one in London – nothing is identical but you are just trying to get something as close as possible so you can train as hard as you can.”

When asked whether he is beginning to feel any nerves in the build up to the Games, Wilson added: “Not really. I just got over the first competition of the year, fairly relaxed – I am a relaxed kind of guy.

“I don’t take life too seriously, I live every day as if it’s my last and just enjoy it. I am so lucky, I really have to make that quite clear, I’m shooting for a living. I get paid to shoot clays, and so I really appreciate where I am and what I am doing.

“I am training as hard as I possibly can to try and do the country proud in August.”