Sporting Shooter

Sporting Shooter is the magazine for those who love the outdoors and the thrill of the hunt. It’s at the very heart of the sport, put together by keen hunters who understand what readers want in the way of information and entertainment related to their activity. Sporting Shooter contains a mix of hunting stories, firearm test reports, technical advice, reloading data, product reviews and lots more.

Bangs for your bucks • Does a $500 used gun compare with a new one costing 10 times as much?

Sporting Shooter

LETTER OF THE MONTH Chrome-plated triggers

Adventure sika

Mauser 25 Max • Mauser lands a straight-pull rifle that redefines quick, slick actions

Aero Precision Solus LW Hunter • America’s Aero Precision puts its lightest action at the centre of an uncompromised factory-built custom rifle

Meopta Optika5 4-20x50 BDC-3 • If you want to reach far without reaching deep, this Euro-made scope has all the qualifications

Munslow on NSW Firearms Licensing Law • This new book by retired lawyer Simon Munslow is an illuminating guide to complex laws

Foxes and rabbits • It’s impossible to resist shooting little ferals when they just keep coming!

Irrational parks • Locking up land doesn’t help anyone

WEATHERBY / ZEROTECH / WARNE PHOTO COMPETITION

Showdown in Toad County • Poppa Pete Dowdell relates the exploits of Knockem Down Nell and her gang of urchins

Hog deer heaven • Victoria has the world’s only huntable population of free-range hog deer

Counting crows • Not all crowbars are for digging holes. Mick Matheson does some shepherding

Buffalo grab-bag • After so many hunts on NT public land, Mick Barrett has tales to tell!

The new rifle hunt • Russell Dempsey takes his son and his new rifle on a meat-seeking fallow hunt

What’s in a trophy? • Dylan Smith discovers the true meaning of the word

SHOOTER’S SHOWCASE • WHAT’S NEW IN THE MARKET

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Three everlasting cartridges • Some cartridges are older than all of us but they refuse to die – and for good reason

BACON Busters

Boars with bows • Hunting pigs with arrows will never get old