Edition 65

Australian Hunter

Australia’s favorite hunting magazine

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From the Editor
Australian Hunter 65 hits the midway mark of the year and the second edition for 2018 is absolutely brimming from cover to cover, featuring action-packed hunting tales, firearm, ammo, edgeware and product reviews, along with some wise words from seas
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Three Questions Pave The Way To Africa
Whereabouts? When? Is there a spare spot? With those three questions, I was suddenly on my way to Africa. The answers to those questions were: Namibia, in about eight months and yes, there’s a place available if you want to come too. Wow! I was going
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Chamois Buck In The New Zealand Rut
With high expectations, I was being rushed away from Christchurch Airport southbound by a shuttle driver who moments earlier had been waiting for me at the bottom of an escalator holding up a sign with my name on it. It was a long time in the making
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Pigs, Mossies And Marauding Ducks
Our scheduled pig hunt in November on the NSW property coincided with a cooler break in the weather compared to the oppressive 40C-degree temperatures we had been experiencing. And the property owner’s late aerial rice sewing, a task normally perform
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Curiosity Killed The Feral Cat
As recreational hunters, my son Rob and I focus heavily on wild dogs. Our success on properties in the Brisbane Valley area of South East Queensland has led to requests for help from other property owners who have felt the pain and experienced the gr
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A Good Spot For Stags
A lot of people have commented to me over the years that I must be a lucky hunter. Well, no. I don’t always take something - a lot of the time I just go out into the bush and look, take photos and enjoy the wildlife and leave them alone. I remember a
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First Fox Trophy
On this trip, we were all arriving separately due to varying work commitments. I was there in the afternoon, followed by my regular hunting mate Thommo, with our third member Welshy due to join us at around midnight. While we set up camp and patched-
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Biters And Stingers Of The Insect Ranks
In Edition 62 of Australian Hunter we looked at the treatment for the most renowned biters… snakes. This time we will deal with the more sneaky, but sometimes equally deadly, stinging insects - or anthropods. Of the anthropods, the classes Hymenopter
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Aged Hunters Prosper With Positive Attitude
Growing old has many benefits: you aren’t expected to be excessively athletic, you don’t worry too much if things tend to sag a bit here and there, and if you’ve done it right from the start, you have some good yarns up your sleeve. But there are tho
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Leading Moving Targets
Not so long ago, a hunting buddy and I were discussing the subject of taking a shot at running game. It soon became apparent that we were poles apart about how much lead was required under different circumstances. Lead, of course, is the technique of
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The Outdoor Edge Razor-Pro 2-Blade razor/gutting knife
I confess to having too many items in my field butchering kit, which consists of an old tackle box, a canvas bag and a small bumbag pouch. I’m unsure how many knives, sharpeners and associated accoutrements I have collected over the years but I am al
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Vintage Knives A Sound Investment
Cutting tools undoubtedly play a significant role in human evolution. Respected anthropologists and historians are on record with assertions that development of blade-ware has fuelled the technology without which our civilisation would have come to a
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The Hunting Knife
Hunting knives are personal tools and most hunters have a preference. Many of today’s young hunters, however, seem to struggle with knives better suited for survival use. The problem is that there are so many good knives about and unless you know wha
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Fusion Deer Ammo From Federal
One of the factors determining whether you load your own ammunition or use commercially produced factory loads is the amount of ammo you actually go through in a season. Those who do not use enough to justify setting up a reloading outfit, buying all
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Solar Panels And Security Box For Bushnell Trail Cameras
There are two proprietary solar panel options for the recent crop of Bushnell trail/game cameras. One alternative, the 119756C, comes with the cable plugs to fit all of the new Bushnell Aggressor cameras, including the Bushnell Aggressor Wireless and
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Campology Aussie Bush Kettle
The Aussie bush is renowned for its toughness - and so is Campology’s Aussie Bush Kettle. Campology is 100 per cent Australian owned and operated and its durable Aussie Bush Kettle, also designed on home soil, is built to last. The kettle’s volcanic
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Franchi’s new Horizon
The global Beretta Holdings Group has some of the finest firearms and accessory brands under its umbrella, two of the most noticeable being the Finnish giants in Sako and Tikka. The current rifle varieties being produced in the Riihimaki plant are te
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Traits Of A Good Hunting Bullet
Some of the liveliest shooting discussions I have been involved in have occurred around the smoke of a hunting campfire. And possibly no topic is more frequently debated, nor more controversial, than that pertaining to what characteristics constitute
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A Charcuterie Diary by P J Booth
This hefty tome is not your normal, everyday recipe cookbook. From the outset, Peter John Booth, the creator of A Charcuterie Diary, makes that fact abundantly clear. His opening words of the book’s Prologue could not be more precise. “I am not a che
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Braised Goat Rump Steaks
A rump steak is made by slicing a thick cut from across the end of a leg roast. In doing so, many muscles end up as part of the rump steak. Because of the number of muscles, there is a lot of sinew (found between the muscles) in each rump steak. In o
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Traditional Yorkshire Pork Pies
Having just shared a pig carcass, our old friends John and Betty set a date for us to meet and participate in making a batch of traditional Yorkshire pork pies. John is a Yorkshireman, born and bred, nearing his ninth decade. He and Betty have led ad
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SSAA Conservation & Wildlife Management branches
The SSAA Vic Conservation & Pest Management program is an initiative started in conjunction with Parks Victoria. Accredited SSAA members have been used to control pest species such as foxes, rabbits, wild cats, dogs, pigs and goats in national parks,
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SSAA - What We Do
The SSAA has about 440 clubs and ranges throughout Australia. We cater for target shooters and hunters who may want to sight-in their firearms at one of our many ranges. Our clubs also offer many different types of rifle, shotgun and handgun shooting

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