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Editor Phillip Hayes phillip.hayes@manmagnum.co.za Contributing Editor Gregor Woods Contributing Editor Malcolm Cobb Senior Subeditor Gail Osborne gosborne@manmagnum.co.za Art Director Clemens Smith clemens.smith@manmagnum.co.za Publisher Theuns Vent
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Axe Bullets
WHEN Covid hit the world in 2020, Francois Fourie, an engineer and avid hunter and shooter, got frustrated by the sudden scarcity of mono-metal bullets in South Africa. What products did reach our shores suddenly carried huge price tags, making them
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G96 Gun Blue Creme
THE company G96 Products Inc. in the USA has been producing various gun care products for decades and the local importer, Guns & Bows in the Western Cape, has been supplying local shops with a range of items. They were kind enough to supply us with t
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Huntex 2024
CAN you feel the vibe? The long awaited hunting season that is given its annual kick-start at HuntEx is just around the corner. HuntEx 2024 will once again display a host of the most-wanted products and services for hunters, shooters, people with sel
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Gallery
When the first competition and tactical rifle scope from KAHLES was launched in 2007, the specific requirements and standards were similar to those of the rifle scopes available for hunting. Since then, much has changed with regard to user behaviour
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Hunting Opportunities
QUEENSTOWN, Eastern Cape: Rheebok Fontein Game Farm. Are you ready for a memorable hunting season? Eland R25 000, kudu R18 000, Burchell zebra R5 500, fallow deer R3 500, and many more species available. Danny Mulder 082-494-0819, danny@fibsqtn.co.za
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Kolskoot
NOU BESKIKBAAR! JOU GIDS VIR RAAK SKIET DIE BOSVELD-UITGAWE Kry KOLSKOOT by jou naaste kettingwinkel, of bestel en betaal aanlyn en ons lewer dit af saam met jou volgende uitgawe van SA JAGTER/HUNTER of MAN MAGNUM. Ook beskikbaar by die SA Jagters-wi
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Op Jag Met ’n Legende
“DRUK met jou regter-elmboog hier op my skouer,” het die professionele jagter vir my seun, Chris, gesê. Die stel selfgemaakte skietstokke uit elastiese kerriebos-latte (Salvadora persica) was stabiel genoeg, maar die ram het op 230 treë afstand gesta
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On Sale Now
Glossy, 100-page Guide GET YOUR COPY TODAY! On sale at all major magazine retailers MAGNUM’S HUNTING & SHOOTING GUIDE IS PACKED WITH TIPS FOR HUNTERS From choosing a rifle to what to take on a hunt to hunting skills… and everything in between Our exp
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Mogalakwena Bushbuck
AS A young boy I hunted my first bushbuck in the Eastern Cape. To this day it remains one of my fondest memories and one that I will treasure forever. On that day, an enduring quest for bushbuck took root within me. However, it took me almost 25 year
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Letters
The article on old bayonets in the July/August 2023 Magnum opened a rusty old box in the attic of my memory. At Que Que High School in Rhodesia (as it was then), where I was a boarder, the House Master, told me to report on Wednesday afternoon to the
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FOR EVERY HUNTER & SHOOTER
Packed full of hunting stories, rifles, shotguns, handguns, wingshooting, self-defence, test reports, recipes, collector’s pieces, knives, humour, gun dogs and so much more. SUBSCRIBE TODAY OR BUY IN STORE AT MAJOR RETAILERS FOR A PRINT SUBSCRIPTION
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Impala Perfect
THE Dutch first settled at the southern most tip of South Africa in 1652 and by the end of the 1600s, their trekboere were already penetrating the interior, encountering and naming ever more animal species. However, a further 100 years and more woul
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Hunting Season
THE article Technology in the Bush in the January/February 2024 edition reminded me of how the first ‘really high tech’ equipment I bought somewhere in the late 90s or early 2000s (a handheld GPS), changed the way I was able to travel and work, somet
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Obituary
16 January 1951 – 9 January 2024 I MET John Welch in the mid-1990s when I became involved in the South African Gunowners’ Association (SAGA). By then John had already been involved in the fight for firearm rights for well over a decade in his capacit
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Derya tm22 .22lr
THE .22lr cartridge might be 137 years old, but it is still very much alive and well today. In fact, it is more popular now than ever before and most manufacturers now produce rifles in this calibre. For most of us, our shooting journey started at a
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Canik Rival-s All Steel 9mmp Pistol
WE LOOKED in detail at the SFx Rival from Canik Arms in Turkey in our September/October 2022 edition. This pistol is a dedicated competition tool, ready to compete straight out-of-the-box. Thus far Canik pistols have all been fitted with polymer fram
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The Trophy Conundrum
“SO LONG as a species has value, and people are prepared to pay to hunt that species, it will be well looked after.” The aforementioned quote may sound clichéd, but it remains a truism. I believe that, as ethical sport hunters, we need perhaps to rev
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Subscriber Of The Month
Last year when we asked Frank to be Subscriber of the Month in Magnum, he was delighted to accept. Sadly between the time of asking and now, Frank has passed away. We are publishing his response to our request in his memory. Frank lived in Gauteng bu
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Wingshooting: Confidence Counts!
SOUTH Africa has some of the finest terrestrial gamebird shooting in the world. Our varied partridge and francolin species offer some of the most challenging shots imaginable, not to mention our crafty guineafowl which can outthink and outmanoeuvre e
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Old times Guns Ways
THE three of us sat in silence as we scanned the hillside facing our shooting position. It was four o’clock on a fine winter afternoon and the opposite slopes were bathed with a golden wash by the slowly sinking sun. Although our shooting arc was at
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Sajwv-kalahari Jagkompetisie!
R100 per kaartjie WEN WEN!!! Skryf vandag in en beleef die gasvryheid van een van die gewildste jagbestemmings in Suider-Afrika! SKRYF SÓ IN: SKANDEER DIE KODE OF DOEN ’N INBETALING: Betaal veelvoude van R100 in die SAJWV se bankrekening by: Absa (63
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Swarovski 8x32 EL Range TA
COMPACT laser range-finding binoculars offer a considerable advantage over their larger counterparts. These lightweight instruments are particularly suitable for hunts that require a lot of walking and climbing, especially in challenging terrain. Mou
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Buffalo In The Heat
THE year was 1984. I was hunting in one of the well-known hunting blocks to be found in the southern sector of Zambia’s Kafue system along with a friend, and very experienced hunter, who was guiding his 19-year-old daughter on what they hoped would b
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Campfire Tales…
I WAS sharing a fire with my old friend Royce Buckle, who’d been a professional hunter in East Africa during the ‘golden age’ of safaris. The conversation drifted to hunting literature that had emanated from those times, and I remarked that I had lap
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The Collector’s Rifle
IN 2019 John Rigby & Co introduced a new series of rifles called Heritage. The concept is aimed at collectors and only 50 rifles of each model will be produced.Each model in the Heritage range will be named after a famous hunter. The first Heritage m
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Venison Savoury Tart
300g Shortcrust Pastry250g Red Onion, sliced250g Kudu Salami, chopped250g Venison leftovers, cooked & shredded200g Bacon, diced250g Cream Cheese4 Eggs, beaten250ml Cream2.5ml (½ tsp) SIX GUN GRILL BBQ Seasoning100g Cheddar Cheese, grated 1. Preheat o
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Sako 90 Hunter
THE Sako 90 rifle replaces the wellknown and popular (but now discontinued) Sako 85. There are a few differences between the 85 and 90 models, most notably when seeing the rifle for the first time as the scope mounting system of the 90 offers a Picat
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Foreword
As far as hunting and firearms are concerned, not much has changed in the last century. We still use vellies (at least some of us do), some hunters are still armed with black powder weapons dating from the 1800s and interestingly, quite a number of s
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Return Of A Prodigal Pal
THE occassion justified a feast. We were out in the shimmering desert called (with some reason) the Knersvlakte. It was mid-summer and we were holding a celebration camp to welcome Vic back into our midst. Vic had just returned from three years in ex
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