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.

The testing regime • Shining a light on Sporting Shooter’s reviews

Sporting Shooter

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Thorn bush buffalo • Hunting huge and aggressive Cape buffalo in claustrophobic tunnels of African thorns was the challenge John Hossack craved

Weatherby 307 Range XP • Weatherby’s first new rifle in more than 50 years is a departure from tradition but not from quality and performance

Emak Savunma Over Lord PB12 • This new repeating shotgun refines the button-release concept in a package that’s both classy and thoroughly effective

Parker-Hale gun cleaning • We clean guns a lot, which gave us an ideal opportunity to put the whole suite of Parker-Hale gear to the test

Building confidence • You can practice all you like but the more you hunt, the better you get

The scariest distraction • The national firearms registry is worse than just trick to make you look the other way

WEATHERBY/ZEROTECH PHOTO COMPETITION

The curse of the flinch • Lots of things cause us to flinch and most us will suffer it at some point. You can cure it

Swamp kings • Phil Self has the hunt of a lifetime on a long-awaited trip to the Northern Territory chasing the biggest boars in the swamps

Return to the mountains • Putting new knees to the test, Tony Pizzata is rewarded with a cracking stag

Gidgee goats • Steve Spiekman clocks up the miles hunting in western Queensland’s sprawling goat country

ARB Intensity IQ driving lights

6.5 Remington Magnum • The 6.5 Rem Mag deserved a better fate, being a short magnum released way before its time

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What did you sign up for? • Sixty years a shooter and yet there are still things to be done, reckons Dave Burt

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