THIS has to be the largest book I have ever reviewed. It measures 39 x 31cm, has 572 glossy pages and weighs 5kg. That’s bigger even than Robin Hurt’s earlier tome, A Hunter’s Hunter which I reviewed in the Jan/Feb 2021 edition of Magnum. This new bo

IT WAS the eerie call of the fiery-necked nightjar, ‘Good Lord deliver us’ and the cry of black-backed jackal that had made me shiver the previous evening. I’m originally from Scotland; I had finally arrived in Africa and I knew it was going to be a

Thank you so much for your email about Magnum’s Hunting Opportunities. We stopped placing the free adverts as we are fully-booked with repeat clients every year and it was embarrassing having to turn down every booking from the Man Magnum! Your free

Awie lives in Potchefstroom, North West Province. His favourite hunting ground is the Free State because of the different terrain from bush, savannah, hills, and mountains to large open plains. There are also a large variety of hunting species that a

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IT WAS the early part of the last century, the Boer War was over and Great Britain was doing its best to digest the lessons learned in that conflict. The British colonial military authorities were given a serious wake-up call by the superior marksman

AS PART of the Magnum team I get a fair share of hunting and shooting related questions, mostly people asking which handgun is the best for defence, which calibre is best for hunting, and which hunting or long-range rifle I’d recommend. Of course the

After Magnum’s 2024 Hunting & Shooting Guide went on sale, I received a phone call from a reader querying a statement I had made in my article “Ammo Savvy” regarding bullet disintegration in flesh at high impact velocities. He said an ordinary Reming

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

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

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