February 2024

On Target Africa

South Africa's PRS, ELR, sports shooting, optics and in-depth firearm review magazine

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On Target Africa
Editor: Louise Taylor Email: editor@ontargetafrica.co.za Contributing Editor: Chris Blatherwick Art Director: Sonja Louw Charl Gous Warren Britnell Norbert Hellberg Greg Sykes Asharuf Moorad Craig Baleta Adrian Burrows Franscois Gous Pieter Meyer Nor
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From The Editor’s Desk
We publish articles in every issue contributed by competitive shooters in different sports-shooting disciplines. I am grateful for the time these shooters sacrifice to write the articles, which are based mostly on their own match experiences, with th
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Is Your Rifle Match-Ready?
Let us start with the barrel. I am discussing Precision Rifle Series (PRS) type shooting, focusing on centrefire. It is very important to have an exact round count on the barrel. How many rounds have you shot through the barrel? I am going to say, in
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The New Era of Tactical Riflescopes
When the first competition and tactical rifle scope from KAHLES was launched in 2007, the specific requirements and standards were similar to those of riflescopes available for hunting. That is the reason why these special products were based on a hu
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Send IT 2-Mile Series Opener
On 20 January 2024, we kicked off the ELR (Extreme Long Range) season with the newly formulated Send IT, ELR Shooting Cutting Edge 2-Mile Challenge series – proudly supported by Boomsticks, a local importer of Cutting Edge bullets. The series consist
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PR22 Combined National and Club Match
After the IPRF world shoot in Italy during September 2023, there has been a huge spike in interest in PR22 shooting. Gun dealers have been doing a swift trade in 22LR rifles and, with licences now coming through, there is a lot of excitement around t
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Two-Mile Shoot at Fort Mistake
A two-mile (3 200 m) shoot was hosted at Fort Mistake on 10 and 11 February. The history of the event was that in 2019 we were approached by Jaco Heyns on behalf of Truvelo to host an Extreme Long Range (ELR) shoot at Fort Mistake. We then found a si
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Winds of Change
Send IT’s 15th ELR match at Darling Steel Valley was on 10 February. Its inaugural event was held on a cold, wet and windy 6 July 2019. With the picturesque Table Mountain in the southerly direction, Darling Steel Valley is located at sea level next
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Pr22 Provincial And Club Match marksman’s Nest
11 February 2024 Match Type: PR22 Provincial and Club Venue: Marksman’s Nest Firearms Training Centre & Shooting Range, Abbotsdale, Malmesbury. The Precision Rifle 22LR (known as PR22) shooting discipline has taken off worldwide, and we are certainly
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Southern Sky Operations – The GLOCK Shop
Go all the way down to the end of the road and on your right-hand side press the relevant intercom button and drive around the building to the rear entrance. Walking in to the retail area, I did not see anything different, but I did notice that the t
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Latest Knives from Rigby
Established in Dublin in 1775, the company has more than 240 years of gunmaking experience. Rigby opened its first London shop in 1865 and continued operating out of both offices until closing its Dublin shop in 1897. The company moved to the USA in
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The Realities Of Owning A Handgun For Self-Defence
Then relatively unknown in South Africa, along came maverick inventor Gaston Glock, whose first foray into firearms, the GLOCK 17, had started to become somewhat of a phenomenon in the US. Slowly but surely the ground-breaking design was introduced i
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Latest Product Round-Up
This brand-new riflescope series follows on from the great success of the Mark 5HD line, which dominates the long-range scene and has won several major military tenders. The new Mark 4HD has been developed based on the experience that few users in th
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New High Performance Fire Blanket Specifically Designed For Supressing Lithium-ion Battery Fires
New high performance fire blanket specifically designed for supressing lithium-ion battery fires SafeQuip now stocks the newly developed range of high performance, multi-use, lithium-ion battery fire blankets which are designed specifically for fires
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DEON - March Scopes
DEON launched the 5-42x56 Genll at Shot Show and will exhibit at the upcoming IWA as well. March-FX 5-42x56 mm FFP scope was developed for long-range shooters and hunters who demand the highest mechanical/optical performance. Large elevation travel a

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