By Mike Sinclair, PA Sport

England's Commonwealth Games success story at Bisley ended with a whimper on Saturday.

Having enjoyed a stunning opening seven days on the shooting range - during which the hosts plundered 18 medals - England failed to register a medal on the final day.

The only British medal came from Scotland's clay pigeon shooter Mike Thomson who took silver in the men's skeet.

Overnight leader Thomson dropped back to joint fourth before shooting a perfect 25 to secure second place behind Canada's Clayton Miller.

"After the first two rounds I didn't think I was going to get any medal but I stuck in there," said the 47-year-old gamekeeper.

"I knew I had to shoot a 25 in the final round. You have to concentrate on the targets and forget everything around you or the targets just slip away."

But Thomson kept his nerve to make up for the disappointment of missing out on a medal when he finished fourth in Victoria eight years ago.

"It's great to finally win a medal to promote the sport in Scotland and the rest of Britain," he said. "It wouldn't have been possible without my lottery funding."

Susan Jackson just missed out on another Scottish medal in the women's prone 50 metre rifle, finishing fourth.

But Jackson and fifth-place Johanne Bekke, whose last shot miss cost her bronze, were beaten on count-back after finishing level on points with third-placed New Zealander Juliet Etherington.

Etherington benefited from the misfortune of Malaysia's Nurul Hudda Baharn who was deducted 10 points for hitting the wrong target, a miscalculation which cost her a medal place.

Bekke said: "If I'd got that last shot I'd have got bronze. I held the shot for a long time. It's my own fault. I'll kick myself for a long time for that."

Australia's Kim Frazier took gold ahead of South Africa's Esmari van Reenen.

Russian-born Lalita Yauhleuskaya took the second Aussie gold of the day in the women's 25m pistol singles.

Australia won the most medals from the shooting, with 11 gold, 13 silver and 6 bronze making up their total of 30.

But India were the tournament's surprise success story, finishing with 14 from a total of 24 medals.

Charan Singh rounded off the shooting, beating Australia's Tim Lowndes into second place by just .3 of a point with his winning total of 1,251.5 in the men's 50m three-position rifle.

England's Chris Hector led following the first two disciplines - the prone and the standing - but his weakest element, the kneeling, saw him drop back to fifth place and he was unable to improve on that in the final round.

"The kneeling usually kills me," he said. "I have a technical problem which my coach has identified and we will be working on it."

Earlier Jaspal Rana equalled India's Anjil Bhagaat's four gold medals as he won the men's 25m centre fire pistol - his eighth Commonwealth gold.

Mick Gault's three golds and a bronze helped England finish third in the shooting medal table with five gold, five silver and eight bronze.