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.

More sporting shooters • The Sporting Shooter team is expanding, as is our reach

Sporting Shooter

ASK THE GUN EDITOR • Nick Harvey passed away in February 2024 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 He left us with scores of unpublished answers to readers’ queries.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.

The last frontier • Way up on the Cobourg Peninsular, Jared Matthews battles hard to bag a big old banteng bull

Browning X-Bolt 2 Ovix Speed • Light, highly adjustable and lovely to shoot, Browning’s upgraded X-Bolt Speed rocks

Celik Arms Chimera PB223 • The new wave of button-release repeaters gains momentum with the arrival of the Chimera

Federal Premium ELD-X • Federal turns to Hornady for a match-grade hunting bullet. We put the 6.5 CM to the test

Forever a hunter • Meet Burnsie – husband, father, worker, mate, hunter, shooter

Police vs parliament • Bureaucrats aren’t supposed to make laws, yet here we are

WEATHERBY / ZEROTECH PHOTO COMPETITION

Let it snow! • Aiden Peake gets a pleasant surprise when he sets out to hunt rabbits at dawn

Desert ferals • Every Aussie hunter should plan a trip to hunt feral camels, an experience that ought to be on everyone’s wish list

The pleasures of hunting chital • Beautiful deer, delicious meat, great mates, memorable hunts. Mick Chapman tells why chital are his favourite

Can we go hunting, Pa? • It’s the first thing his grandsons ask, and Leon Wright is only too happy to oblige

Bullet testing with baffles • Last issue, Kevin White showed us how to build a bullet trap for projectile testing. Now it’s time to use it

SHOOTER’S SHOWCASE

What matters first and last • The Gross Error Approach and Chasing Minutiae are two different ways to roll your own ammunition

BACON Busters

The pursuit of excellence • Keeping it trad is partly about being the best you can be