Sept/Oct 2023

Man Magnum

The leading magazine for the South African hunting and conservation fraternity.

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WIN with MAN MAGNUM
Win one of three fantastic prizes from Stanley!! We have a Trigger-Action Travel Mug in blaze orange; a Classic Bottle in Bottomland Mossy Oak Camo; and a Classic Bottle in Country DNA Mossy Oak Camo. Trigger-Action Travel Mug This 470ml travel mug i
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Campfire Tales…
GORDON CORMACK and I were sharing a campfire on the Zambezi, listening to the deep-voiced snorting and grunting of a pod of hippos close by. Every once in a while, something would disturb one of them, and it would set them all off in a loud cacophony
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Letters
I refer to the January/February 2023 issue and the letter written by D. Lourens. I just wanted to write and say, as an avid shooter and reader of Magnum, I thought it brilliantly summed up the passion and ethos that this magazine creates and continue
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Canik Rugby Sft Limited Edition
WITH the Rugby World Cup being decided during the next two months there is no better way for firearm enthusiasts to enjoy the sport than becoming proud owners of a ‘green and gold’ pistol. Canik SA decided to celebrate local rugby by embarking on an
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Three-day Deadly Danger
EARLY one mid-winter morning during 2012, on Zimbabwe’s Bubye Valley Conservancy, we stopped to check for buffalo sign at a waterhole. In the heavy sand at the water’s edge, we found the spoor of a solitary old bull. He’d been regularly moving along
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Gun Jargon
LANGUAGES change and develop as man improves upon his various inventions, including firearms. This can become a problem in publishing, especially since most firearm literature entering Southern Africa in recent decades has been American. Formerly we
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Kudu Trouble
MY 2023 hunting season began with a visit to a beautiful 9 000 hectare farm just outside Musina, between the R572 and the Limpopo River. The farm lies between a nature reserve and national park. This beautiful area is mostly covered by mopani which,
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Vortex Defender CCW Red Dot Sight
THE Defender CCW (designed for concealed carry weapons) is Vortex’s latest micro sight which allows maximum concealment while still delivering enough functionality to be considered a serious option on an every-day carry pistol. The sight weighs only
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Stanley Thermos Vessels
HUNTERS, fishermen and campers need vacuum thermos flasks that are unbreakable. Those with glass interiors break on falling, and in my youth I went through many. Fifty years ago, an American introduced me to Stanley stainless steel flasks; I bought t
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Editor Phillip Hayes phillip.hayes@manmagnum.co.za Contributing Editor Gregor Woods Contributing Editor Malcolm Cobb Senior Subeditor Gail Osborne gosborne@manmagnum.co.za Art Director Clemens Smith clemens.smith@manmagnum.co.za Michel Schoeman miche
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MAN MAGNUM FOR HUNTERS & SHOOTERS
Rifles and Hunting Handguns Shotguns Defence Shooting Informative Test Reports Collector's Pieces Recipes Knives Gun Dogs Humour …and so much more Available every second month from major magazine retailers or subscribe FOR A PRINT SUBSCRIPTION Email
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The Deadly Duo
BOTH the Winchester rifle and Colt revolver claim the title of The Gun that Won the West. I believe this legendary title should actually be Guns Won the West, because when the earliest westward movement of settlers began in America, the flintlock rif
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Hunting The Black-backed Jackal
THE black-backed jackal is one of the oldest dog species known. Fossil deposits show they have remained unchanged for about 2.5 million years. The English name jackal dates back to about 1600 and derives from the French “chacal” which in turn comes f
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125 Years Of The Mauser M98
THIS YEAR, Mauser’s Model 98 bolt-action celebrates its 125th anniversary. It remains the most copied bolt-action in history; the basic design is universally regarded as unsurpassed for its purpose, and it remains the first choice of custom gun-maker
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Light On The Subject
A GOOD hand held flashlight and/or a weapon-mounted light is mandatory for low-light defence shooting. You simply cannot press the trigger without first identifying the threat. Two of the greatest advancements in weapon-mounted lights are the light e
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Striker Shooting Chair
FOR precision shooting, nothing beats a stable and comfortable shooting bench. To zero a rifle properly, such is important because you are not testing your own shooting ability, but the scope’s setting, relative to the intrinsic accuracy of the rifle
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Alistair And The Elephants
I MET Alistair Hull in the BSAP (Rhodesian police) in the late 1960/70s. In 1975, he transferred to National Parks & Wildlife, dedicating his life to preserving wild places and animals in what later became Zimbabwe. Al has been a licensed PH and guid
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Game Gun Basics
THIS article is aimed at the novice wingshooter; it attempts to answer the fundamental questions generally asked by prospective shotgun buyers. As such (and given magazine space limitations) it will, of necessity, be superficial, and broad generaliza
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Gemsbuck Backstrap Schnitzel with Red Cabbage
> 2-3 schnitzels per serving> flour> 2-3 eggs> milk> breadcrumbs> olive oil> salt and pepper > 1 red cabbage, roughly chopped> 2 onions, chopped> 2 cloves garlic, chopped> 2 tablespoons sugar> 3 peeled red apples, sliced> 2 tablespoons vinegar> 1 kno
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Memories Are Made Of This
MY TWO young boys, my gunsmith friend Willie, his sons, and I sat around the campfire far in the bushveld of the Soutspanberg. Our bellies were full and there was happiness all around. We’d enjoyed a successful hunt for warthog and impala, and I’d ha
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Takka Takka Bom Bom
OLDER readers will doubtless remember Al Venter’s regular TV documentaries on Africa’s numerous post-independence wars. Al’s career as a freelance journalist began in the 1960s, and he was still at it as an octogenarian in 2021! He now lives in Londo
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Combination Guns
‘COMBINATION guns’ are shoulder arms with more than one barrel, and chambered for two or more different calibres of which at least one is a shotgun and one a centrefire rifle calibre or .22-rimfire. Combination guns were intended as ‘all-purpose’ pie
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DIY Stippling
My polymer frame handgun has a fairly slippery/smooth grip. Other shooters have suggested that stippling be applied to enhance the grip. I looked it up on the internet and saw that some shooters are doing it themselves. Is it safe to do this? – Piete
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Rous Kudu Still Number 1?
In 1916, James Cole Rous received an invitation to attend a hunt in a state-owned area of the Lydenburg district of what is now Mpumalanga. Rous was not a keen hunter and his only rifle was a .22 Savage Hi-Power. He accepted the invitation largely fo
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Unusual Shotgun
Some years ago, Magnum reader Johann Howes sent me this photo of an interesting old shotgun made by James Lang, son of the famous London gun-maker, Joseph Lang. My eye immediately fell on the curved junction-line seemingly dividing the ‘sideplate’, w
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New Model Torkcraft Rangefinder
Vermont Sales, who import TorkCraft products, have brought in an updated model of the PF220 TorkCraft 600m laser rangefinder as tested by Magnum in the May 2021 edition. The updated model has a fresh new look with a slope feature. The unit has a magn
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Subscription Renewals
We have received a number of queries about our print subscription renewals. Subscriptions are now handled by On the Dot. In the month before a subscription is due to lapse, On the Dot (OTD) will email and/or try to phone a subscriber at least five ti
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Coming In The Next Issue…
Test Report on Lovex Powder (S020 and S035) Corporate Pigeon Shoot Woods on Falling Block Rifles
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Subscriber Of The Month
Bennie has lived in Pretoria, Gauteng, since 1989. His favourite hunting areas are the bushveld and the Eastern Cape mountains because he finds it a challenge to hunt on foot (walk-and-stalk) in these areas. He also enjoys hunting in places where you

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