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.

Early learning • Learning to kill shouldn’t be controversial.

Sporting Shooter

A choice of two .270s • Letters containing questions for answering by Nick Harvey must be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. Mail your letters to: The Technical Editor, 3 Reef Street, Hill End, NSW 2850.

Bail up! • Gary Hall gets up close with a coach gun and the pigs don’t know what hit ’em!

Ruger’s new Marlin 1895 SBL • More than 125 years after its introduction, the Marlin lever-action has been refined under new Ruger ownership

Marlin rises • A brief history of Marlin, the 1895 and how Ruger has given new life to both

The Perfectionist • Light enough for comfortable field carry yet accurate enough for precision long-range shooting, this new rifle is a varmint zapper

Atomic 29 copper projectiles • These Aussie-made projectiles not only work well and cost less, they’ll help you beat the bullet shortage

ZeroTech Thrive HD 10x42 binoculars • ZeroTech offers ED lenses in a set of Aussie-designed binoculars at the right price

Putting the boot on • Choose your boots wisely and look after them.

Call out media bias • Speak up and call out poor media reporting on firearms, for all our sakes

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Five will get you six • Tom McCahon’s stalk in the paperbarks goes 20 percent better than planned!

Donkeys: A destructive pest • They keep a low profile among Australia’s feral pests but donkeys are among the worst

Full flight • Having trouble finding somewhere to hunt? Give duck hunting a go. Leon Wright says the opportunities are endless

Swimming stags • Ted Mitchell catches some red deer stags frollicking in the water

Rusa with a side of goat • David Hughes puts an excellent rusa stag on the deck and drops a cracking billy goat to boot

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.30 Newton resurrected • The .30 Newton was ahead of its time and paved the way for a wide range of .30-calibre magnums. It had design features that have only recently been matched

Busting bunnies with Bonnie • A .22, a dog, a house paddock and some rabbits. Oh, what fun!

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