David Beattie won silver in the two-day men's individual trap

Beattie clinched his medal after a three-way single barrel shoot-off.

The Portadown man, in his first Commonwealth Games, was tied on 138 points with New Zealand's Graeme Ede and India's Manavjit Singh Sandhu.

Ede emerged with the gold but 52-year-old Beattie said he hoped his medal would boost the N Ireland team.

"I had the chance to win gold but one target got me twice, and that's the way it goes.

"Last week in the pairs we didn't go very well as we put ourselves under too much pressure.

"Mervyn Morrison and I won a bronze medal in the Commonwealth Championships at the same venue last year so we felt the pressure a bit, but we got our heads together again," said Beattie, who works as a lorry driver.

Morrison finished 18th in Wednesday's individual event.

Northern Ireland's only other medal of the Games so far was won by the men's triples bowls team on Monday.