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 joy of the new and the different • A new rifle, a new calibre and a new hunting adventure.

Sporting Shooter

ASK THE GUN EDITOR • TECHNICAL ADVICE FROM THE GURU

Hunting the Territory • Getting to the Northern Territory has always been a high priority for me. Boars, buff, crocs … it’s definitely my kind of place. It took me a few years to get here and thankfully work gave me the opportunity to get amongst it.

Back Country Hunting

The stylish hunter • Bergara’s affordable B-14 Hunter features clean machining to tight tolerances, a no-nonsense profile, crisp trigger and accurate barrel in an elegant classic-style stock.

Bright Crimson • Crimson Trace has hit the Aussie market with a range of feature-packed scopes that appeal for their optical quality and their good pricing. Nick reviews three of them.

Gun Digest 2022 • The 76th edition of this shooting tome is the best yet.

Yew and your longbow • It doesn’t get more traditional than a longbow made from yew

Register of failure • WA’s unforgivable release of shooters’ data reveals the underlying danger of firearms registries

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Stirring the pigs • Charlie’s been nailing porkers with his new Weatherby!

Things go wrong • Some say Murphy was a bastard. Others call him an optimist. David Hughes is being optimistic with these tales of woes.

Greener Pastures • Peter Hughes attends to a task with a superb .32-40 Martini.

Korea and beyond • Garry Walton tells the story of Benn’s hunt with the rifle his uncle carried in the Korean war.

Club meating

Rusa Rundown • Zac McKenzie gives us the good oil on one of Australia’s least known deer, the Javan rusa.

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

The highly efficient 6.5 PRC • This short, potent 6.5mm cartridge proves that the one in the middle is the nicest.

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Full freezer • Bucks to the left, shots to the right, and Chloe’s stuck in the middle with Frankie and Old Pop.

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