January 2024

Sporting Shooter

Australia’s top selling and most influential hunting magazine

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Editor: Mick Matheson Email: mickmatheson@yaffa.com.au Technical Editor: Nick Harvey Contributors: Tony Pizzata, Dylan Smith, Chloe Golding, Graham Park, Josh Barnett, Jared Matthews, Alex Proft, Scott Spanton, Kevin White. National Sales Manager: To
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Ask The Gun Editor
Letters containing questions for answering by Nick Harvey must be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. Mail your letters to: The Technical Editor, 3 Reef Street, Hill End, NSW 2850. Q I am not impressed by the new CZ 600 rifle series. In
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Chasing Big Blue
EARLY in the rut a couple of years ago, I set off with Harrison Lee and Chris Burns to a property in NSW to chase fallow deer on a property I’d hunted a few times before. It was home to some great fallow bucks but not all of them had been available t
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Remington 783
IN 2020 the Remington firearms business was sold to the Roundhill group for $US13 million. This sale ended the uphill battle of America’s oldest gunmaker since its acquisition by Cerberus Capital Management, later called the Freedom Group. The previo
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Steiner Predator 4-16x50 Rifle Scope
KARL Steiner started his one-man shop in 1947 and, despite Germany’s poor post-war economy, within six years his company had 50 workers. From this modest beginning, Steiner-Optik flourished and expanded so much that in 2008 it was acquired by Beretta
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Cross-gully Game Changer
SOME OF US buy a rifle purely as a tool of hunting or agriculture. Others buy them with a reverence, intending to pass them down as an heirloom with wooden stocks polished, aesthetic value maintained and rough treatment avoided. But irrespective of r
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The Policy Of Persecution
IT feels like shooters in Australia are under more pressure, from more fronts, than at pretty much any time since the 1996 law changes. The issues in Western Australia are the most obvious, of course, with its hateful and fear-based rewrite of the fi
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Kit Colours And Visibility
I’M colourblind. Mostly red/green, but I get a few other colours mixed up as well. In some ways, it’s a pain in the butt when out bush, but I’ve never known any different and I’ve managed to cope just fine. What it does mean is that I like specific p
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Weatherby / Zerotech Photo Competition
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Hat-trick Hounds
ACCESS, access, access. Earlier this year I had the good fortune to gain access to a red deer block that was quite close to home. The owner ran cattle and had a fairly active presence of wild dogs. Having pursued wild dogs locally over the past few y
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Hunting The Crafty Dingo
LATELY, public interest in the dingo has been revived by unprovoked attacks on tourists on Fraser Island, now called K’gari, in Queensland. The only reason that a pure-bred dingo would attack a human would be because it had lived in close contact wit
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The Unforgettable Pursuit Of A Waterbuck
THE SUN was setting on yet another enchanting day in Limpopo, the heart of South Africa. My hunting safari had been a mix of excitement and wonder, but there was one elusive creature that had caught my attention — the waterbuck. I had never seen one
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Up And Down In The High Country
TWO HOURS into my first High Country sambar hunt in years, a stag lies dead at my feet. It had a head worth taking — it must have been because it wasn’t there any more. Nor were his backstraps or hind legs. I was gutted. Someone else had shot him les
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Fighting Son Of A Sow!
There wasn’t much shooting light left as we drove into the paddock. Four kilometres long and one kilometre wide, it was ploughed and lying fallow, waiting for planting. Immediately, we noticed, out where the light turned to dusk about 1½km away, a da
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Shooter’s Showcase
The new Defender Pro earmuffs by Ridgeline offer performance without the hefty price tag and hence are unbeatable value for money. Designed to cancel noise electronically, these earmuffs also provide the ultimate in comfort through their gel-cushione
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The Essentials Of Load Assembly
BRASS and its excellence is crucial for all reloading operations. Everything depends upon it — safety and foolproof functioning together with the best accuracy and most power we can squeeze out of our rifles by reloading. The cartridge case holds all
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Ferals, Balance And Ammo Supplies
THE feral goat population around here is now ridiculous. Essentially, it’s because the market for goats collapsed and now no one is managing them by mustering and selling. As a result, the population has boomed. I am looking out my office window now
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Be Prepared!
THE Golding boys recently nipped out to their favourite hunting property to check their trail cameras and have a late afternoon hunt. The increasingly dry conditions were having an effect on animal movement and it wasn’t uncommon for the cameras to c
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Winner
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