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  • Man Magnum5 min read
    Wingshooting: Confidence Counts!
    SOUTH Africa has some of the finest terrestrial gamebird shooting in the world. Our varied partridge and francolin species offer some of the most challenging shots imaginable, not to mention our crafty guineafowl which can outthink and outmanoeuvre e
    Man Magnum6 min read
    The Trophy Conundrum
    “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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Derya tm22 .22lr
    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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Hunting Season
    THE article Technology in the Bush in the January/February 2024 edition reminded me of how the first ‘really high tech’ equipment I bought somewhere in the late 90s or early 2000s (a handheld GPS), changed the way I was able to travel and work, somet
    Man Magnum1 min read
    FOR EVERY HUNTER & SHOOTER
    Packed full of hunting stories, rifles, shotguns, handguns, wingshooting, self-defence, test reports, recipes, collector’s pieces, knives, humour, gun dogs and so much more. SUBSCRIBE TODAY OR BUY IN STORE AT MAJOR RETAILERS FOR A PRINT SUBSCRIPTION
    Man Magnum5 min read
    Mogalakwena Bushbuck
    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
    Man Magnum5 min read
    Op Jag Met ’n Legende
    “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
    Man Magnum3 min read
    Hunting Opportunities
    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
    Man Magnum3 min read
    Huntex 2024
    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
    Man Magnum6 min read
    Axe Bullets
    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
    Man Magnum7 min read
    The Collector’s Rifle
    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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Campfire Tales…
    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
    Man Magnum5 min read
    Buffalo In The Heat
    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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Swarovski 8x32 EL Range TA
    COMPACT laser range-finding binoculars offer a considerable advantage over their larger counterparts. These lightweight instruments are particularly suitable for hunts that require a lot of walking and climbing, especially in challenging terrain. Mou
    Man Magnum1 min read
    Sajwv-kalahari Jagkompetisie!
    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
    Man Magnum6 min read
    Old times Guns Ways
    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
    Man Magnum2 min read
    Subscriber Of The Month
    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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Canik Rival-s All Steel 9mmp Pistol
    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
    Man Magnum3 min readCrime & Violence
    Obituary
    16 January 1951 – 9 January 2024 I MET John Welch in the mid-1990s when I became involved in the South African Gunowners’ Association (SAGA). By then John had already been involved in the fight for firearm rights for well over a decade in his capacit
    Man Magnum7 min read
    Impala Perfect
    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
    Man Magnum4 min read
    Letters
    The article on old bayonets in the July/August 2023 Magnum opened a rusty old box in the attic of my memory. At Que Que High School in Rhodesia (as it was then), where I was a boarder, the House Master, told me to report on Wednesday afternoon to the
    Man Magnum1 min read
    On Sale Now
    Glossy, 100-page Guide GET YOUR COPY TODAY! On sale at all major magazine retailers MAGNUM’S HUNTING & SHOOTING GUIDE IS PACKED WITH TIPS FOR HUNTERS From choosing a rifle to what to take on a hunt to hunting skills… and everything in between Our exp
    Man Magnum1 min read
    Kolskoot
    NOU BESKIKBAAR! JOU GIDS VIR RAAK SKIET DIE BOSVELD-UITGAWE Kry KOLSKOOT by jou naaste kettingwinkel, of bestel en betaal aanlyn en ons lewer dit af saam met jou volgende uitgawe van SA JAGTER/HUNTER of MAN MAGNUM. Ook beskikbaar by die SA Jagters-wi
    Man Magnum10 min read
    Gallery
    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
    Man Magnum3 min readChemistry
    G96 Gun Blue Creme
    THE company G96 Products Inc. in the USA has been producing various gun care products for decades and the local importer, Guns & Bows in the Western Cape, has been supplying local shops with a range of items. They were kind enough to supply us with t
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    Man Magnum
    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 Publisher Theuns Vent
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    Man Magnum
    Compiled by Phillip Hayes and Gail Osborne Art Director Clemens Smith © Man Magnum Magazine 2024 All Rights Reserved mail@manmagnum.co.za Published by SA Hunt Publishing (Pty) Ltd Distributed by On the Dot, a division of Naspers ■
    Man Magnum7 min read
    You’ve Missed!
    WE HAVE all heard those dreadful words and many of us have, in an attempt to save face, blamed the miss on our equipment. “The scope must have shifted its zero,” a hunter will complain or he will blame the silencer, a warped stock, the scope mounts o
    Man Magnum8 min read
    THE MULTI-USE 9.3x62 CALIBRE CARTRIDGE
    WHICH two rifle calibres would you choose if they had to cover the widest possible range of applications? For more years than I care to remember, I have been asked this question. My answer initially, was based on a cartridge that I had taken a triple

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