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I WAS sharing a fire with my old friend Royce Buckle, who’d been a professional hunter in East Africa during the ‘golden age’ of safaris. The conversation drifted to hunting literature that had emanated from those times, and I remarked that I had lap

WE LOOKED in detail at the SFx Rival from Canik Arms in Turkey in our September/October 2022 edition. This pistol is a dedicated competition tool, ready to compete straight out-of-the-box. Thus far Canik pistols have all been fitted with polymer fram

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WHEN Covid hit the world in 2020, Francois Fourie, an engineer and avid hunter and shooter, got frustrated by the sudden scarcity of mono-metal bullets in South Africa. What products did reach our shores suddenly carried huge price tags, making them

AS A young boy I hunted my first bushbuck in the Eastern Cape. To this day it remains one of my fondest memories and one that I will treasure forever. On that day, an enduring quest for bushbuck took root within me. However, it took me almost 25 year

THE year was 1984. I was hunting in one of the well-known hunting blocks to be found in the southern sector of Zambia’s Kafue system along with a friend, and very experienced hunter, who was guiding his 19-year-old daughter on what they hoped would b

R100 per kaartjie WEN WEN!!! Skryf vandag in en beleef die gasvryheid van een van die gewildste jagbestemmings in Suider-Afrika! SKRYF SÓ IN: SKANDEER DIE KODE OF DOEN ’N INBETALING: Betaal veelvoude van R100 in die SAJWV se bankrekening by: Absa (63

THE .22lr cartridge might be 137 years old, but it is still very much alive and well today. In fact, it is more popular now than ever before and most manufacturers now produce rifles in this calibre. For most of us, our shooting journey started at a

THE Dutch first settled at the southern most tip of South Africa in 1652 and by the end of the 1600s, their trekboere were already penetrating the interior, encountering and naming ever more animal species. However, a further 100 years and more woul

IN 2019 John Rigby & Co introduced a new series of rifles called Heritage. The concept is aimed at collectors and only 50 rifles of each model will be produced.Each model in the Heritage range will be named after a famous hunter. The first Heritage m

“SO LONG as a species has value, and people are prepared to pay to hunt that species, it will be well looked after.” The aforementioned quote may sound clichéd, but it remains a truism. I believe that, as ethical sport hunters, we need perhaps to rev

THE three of us sat in silence as we scanned the hillside facing our shooting position. It was four o’clock on a fine winter afternoon and the opposite slopes were bathed with a golden wash by the slowly sinking sun. Although our shooting arc was at

“DRUK met jou regter-elmboog hier op my skouer,” het die professionele jagter vir my seun, Chris, gesê. Die stel selfgemaakte skietstokke uit elastiese kerriebos-latte (Salvadora persica) was stabiel genoeg, maar die ram het op 230 treë afstand gesta

CAN you feel the vibe? The long awaited hunting season that is given its annual kick-start at HuntEx is just around the corner. HuntEx 2024 will once again display a host of the most-wanted products and services for hunters, shooters, people with sel

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When the first competition and tactical rifle scope from KAHLES was launched in 2007, the specific requirements and standards were similar to those of the rifle scopes available for hunting. Since then, much has changed with regard to user behaviour

QUEENSTOWN, Eastern Cape: Rheebok Fontein Game Farm. Are you ready for a memorable hunting season? Eland R25 000, kudu R18 000, Burchell zebra R5 500, fallow deer R3 500, and many more species available. Danny Mulder 082-494-0819, danny@fibsqtn.co.za

Last year when we asked Frank to be Subscriber of the Month in Magnum, he was delighted to accept. Sadly between the time of asking and now, Frank has passed away. We are publishing his response to our request in his memory. Frank lived in Gauteng bu