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.

Sweet release • Push-button or bolt-action? There are reasons for both

Sporting Shooter

ASK THE GUN EDITOR • Nick Harvey passed away in February after almost 50 years as our Technical Editor. He left us with scores of unpublished answers to readers’ queries. To honour his memory, we will continue his column until we have run them all.

Rating the .204 Ruger

Big skies and fast bucks • Martin Auldist has an awesome adventure hunting pronghorn antelope in Wyoming, USA

Akdas Alcor PB223 • It’s here! The first self-ejecting push-button repeating centrefire at an affordable price has been worth the wait

Burris Eliminator 6 rifle scope • In its sixth generation, Burris’s rangefinding point-and-shoot super-scope gets a complete new look

ZeroTech Trace 3-18x50 LR Hunter • This scope is ideally specified for pulling off long shots in the field, yet it’s still handy up close

The Finns can make a rifle • Testing a new Sako 90 has reignited Dylan’s love for his own pair of Finns

Official obstruction • The red tape tying up your firearm licence is a deliberate choice of governments

WEATHERBY / ZEROTECH PHOTO COMPETITION

Blood on the leaves • A good blood trail points to success, reckons Ian Pelton

WIN VANGUARD GEAR FROM HUNTING DEPOT! • The Hunting Depot Hunter’s Diary competition is open to your hunting story of 200-400 words with at least one high-resolution digital photo. Simply send it with your contact details to mickmatheson@yaffa.com.au.

Bringing home the bacon • Want to bag plenty of pigs? Here’s a back-to-basics guide to perforating porkers

Heatwave hogs • Joe Brennan is attracted to water on stinking hot afternoons. So are the pigs

Crocodile capers • It’s all buffalo and crocs but no pigs this time for Gary Hall

Return of the velvet bucks • Mick Pizzata found two terrific bucks in velvet that then vanished. Would they return for the rut?

Make it mine! • Russell Dempsey embarks on a quest for his forever rifle

SHOOTER’S SHOWCASE

The joy of cast bullets • If you like to shoot more, spend less and experiment, loading cast bullets is probably for you

Leading and cast bullets

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BACON BUSTERS

The hunt