Sporting Shooter

Young gun and old gold

My 15-year-old daughter Samara has shot a good many rabbits and has been on many pig hunts with me, but this trip was her first pursuit of pigs. And the rifle she would use was a very different animal to those seen around contemporary pig hunting circles — a .303-25.

old .303-25 cartridge was the mainstay of the Australian hunting scene in the 50s and 60s but is now considered out of date, grandpa’s gun, inadequate. Hmm, inadequate? How can an 87-90gn soft-point projectile buzzing along at just on 3000fps be inadequate? And what does ‘out of

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