April 2021

Sporting Shooter

Australia’s top selling and most influential hunting magazine

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Media Backs Duck Hunting Ban
REPORTER Richard Willingham asserted, "A study of Victorian duck shooters has found that only one in five were able to correctly answer questions about identifying protected bird species, raising pressure on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to ban du
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Sporting Shooter
Editor: Marcus O’Dean Email: marcusodean@yaffa.com.au Technical Editor: Nick Harvey Contributors: Nick Harvey, Marcus O’Dean, Tony Pizzata, Col Allison, Goran Pehar, Paul O’Connor, Pete Briedahl, Leon Wright, Dylan Smith. National Sales Manager: Tony
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Red Stags At Roar’s Height
We couldn’t see them, but the stags were so close you could hear their laboured grunts and the sound of antler clashing against antler. Ron scanned the bush below with his binocular, looked at me with a grin, and pointed. Farther down the rocky hill
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Letter Of The Month
QHow do you think a single-shot compares with a bolt-action repeater for hunting? I have a Ruger No. 1 in .30-06 and all my mates have bolt-action repeaters. They rubbish my rifle, but in my hunting career I’ve taken 24 trophy animals with a single s
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Kimber’s Fantastic Classic Select Grade
KIMBER rifles fall into the custom production class of higher-end firearms, but they also fall into separate categories. The Montana, Adirondack, Mountain Ascent, Classic Select Grade and Hunters series are all ultralight mountain rifles; the Open Ra
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British Columbia Mountain Goat
MOUNTAIN goats were one of the first mountain-dwelling ungulates to capture my imagination and encourage me to hunt outside of Europe. I saw a fully mounted billy standing on a near-scale faux mountain peak at my first Dallas Safari Club convention s
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Staying Sharp In Different Ways
AN effective hunter usually has tools that are fit for purpose, and skills that allow them to use these tools. Maintaining both can be onerous, but I like to look at it as a way of always being engaged in hunting. When things might be slow, or opport
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Shooter’s Showcase
A premium upgrade on one of SOG’s most desired knives, Terminus XR LTE delivers an upscale daily carry option in a remarkably lightweight package. Terminus XR Light Edition features SOG’s super strong XR Lock technology with carbon fibre liners, G10
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Martin Auldist
MAJOR HUNTING INFLUENCES, MENTORS, WRITERS, FRIENDS, PARENTS ETC. My Dad never hunted but he fished and he took us rabbit trapping, so he had the hunting instinct but, being a surgeon, I guess he never had time to express it properly. I’ll never forg
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Enduro - Full Boar - Working Dog Competition
Send us a digital JPEG image of your favorite K9 for a chance to be featured in this space. There will be one winner per month. The winning dog image will be featured in this space and receive a FREE 20kg bag of ENDURO FULL BOAR delivered to your doo
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Old Bulls
WHEN it comes to hunting Australia’s awesome wild buffalo in the swamps and savannahs of the Top End, the talk and emphasis is often, understandably, centred on the horns of those bulls with the most immense, impressive spreads, the magic hundred-inc
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The Young Billy
I PUT on the wet weather gear and loaded my pack and set off in the drizzle. I had to veer to the left of the mountain to keep the wind in my face. Fortuitously the rain backed off as I made my ascent with gusto. Once I started climbing the mountain,
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One Duck Opening
WITH LESS than a week to go before the start of the Victorian Duck Season it was time to get moving. I had already made up my mind as to where I was going to put the opening in as I had been hunting foxes in the area over the last few months and had
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Weatherby / Fiocchi Photo Competition
BROUGHT TO YOU BY TSA Australian distributors for Weatherby Firearms and Fiocchi Ammunition *AVAILABLE CHAMBERINGS TO WINNERS INCLUDE 223REM, 22-250REM, 243WIN, 270WIN, 308WIN, 30-06SPRG, 300WIN. MAG. SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. With the basis of a cold
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Down Time Up North
THE remote North Queensland hunting camp disappeared in my rear-view mirror in a billowing cloud of grayish red bulldust as the Hi-lux rumbled down the road. I was still buzzing from the four days I had just spent with my mate and owner, Jason Knack,
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Loading The Versatile.25-06 Remington
TWO experimenters, a riflemaker, A.O Niedner and Dr. Franklin W.Mann who had been working with the .30-40 Krag case necked to .25 calibre, showed no hesitation in necking the .30-06 case to .25 with no change in its length, body taper, or shoulder an
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Are You Prepared?
FROM around the start of April, red and fallow males can be heard calling out their challenges to other males as this is the start of the annual breeding season or as it’s known, the Rut/Roar. For me, the rut is my favourite time of the year and a ro
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Bacon Busters
ENTRIES: Please email your high resolution. jpg or png pig hunting image as an attachment to the email addressed to marcusodean@yaffa.com.au – all images must be at least 1MB in size. For entry to be valid the following contact details must be includ

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