Nov/Dec 2022

Man Magnum

The leading magazine for the South African hunting and conservation fraternity.

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Editor Phillip Hayes [email protected] Contributing Editor Gregor Woods Contributing Editor Malcolm Cobb Senior Subeditor Gail Osborne [email protected] Art Director Clemens Smith [email protected] Gail Osborne classifi
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To Each his Own…
AS WITH food, art and much else, when it comes to firearms, there is just no accounting for taste. Much can depend on the influence of parents, mentors and friends, or books and articles on the subject, or it can simply come down to personal preferen
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Letters
The Test Report on Schütze Firearm Care Cleaning Products in the September/October edition of Magnum refers. Regarding Mr Hayes’ gripe with the acronyms for the different Schütze products, every single person using or selling Schütze has had the same
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Campfire Tales…
I WAS a guest at the campfire of professional hunter Dave Lincoln in Botswana, when he produced an unlabelled jar of evil-looking gunge which he proceeded to add to the potjie. “Grief, Dave, what’s that stuff?” I asked. “Taste it,” he said, offering
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CANiK Mete SFT
IN THE previous edition I wrote about the Turkish-made Canik SFx Rival, and although a competition pistol, I found it good enough to consider as a defence handgun. Of course the Rival is not ideal for this role but the new Canik Mete SFT, basically a
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The Toughest Of Them All?
I HAVE often been asked why I choose a .375H&H to hunt blue wildebeest, the insinuation being that a lesser calibre would be quite adequate and that I am over-gunned for my quarry. My usual reply is: “Because I don’t have anything bigger.” Truth be t
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Absorbing Punishment-African Style
‘The game scout was in a bad way, he had a horn through the side of his stomach, a horn through the top of his right shoulder, and the entire back of his thigh muscle had been ripped off right up to his buttocks… it looked bloody ugly.’ PH Craig Robi
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Optics-ready Beretta APX Centurion
WITH age most shooters start to struggle to clearly see the front sight of their handgun and it gets worse as time progresses. For the sake of our younger readers: this is caused by a condition called presbyopia, which is the gradual loss of your eye
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Holosun 507K X2
The X2 Series pistol optics feature two major improvements over previous models. First is the addition of a Lock Mode, which, when activated, locks the buttons preventing inadvertent changes. Second, the buttons have been redesigned to compliment the
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The Rameron Pigeon
MY HOME library contains a book on guns and hunting that is extremely rare. Not that the volume is old and fragile with yellowing pages, but rare because it is the only one in existence. I am extremely proud of the book because it is filled with my o
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LOVEX Handgun Powder
LOVEX single- and double-based propellants are produced by Explosia in the Czech Republic and have been locally available for some time now. The single-based powders comprise nitrocellulose (90% – 98%) with additives such as stabilisers, surface trea
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Springfield Armory Saint Ar15
THE SAINT is a mid- to lower-priced semi-auto AR 15-type rifle in 5.56mm (you can use .223 ammo in it) with a few features that makes it stand out from the run-of-the-mill AR-platforms. The test rifle, supplied by Safari Outdoor, has a 16" barrel wit
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Hunting Lessons
HOW DO you learn to hunt? If you are lucky like me, then you may have had a parent, relative or friend who took you out from an early age and taught you the basics of firearm safety and handling, species identification, stalking and how to move silen
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Battle of Blood River
THE definitive Battle of Blood River, fought between Boers and Zulu, shaped the colonization and political future of Southern Africa for more than a century. Much has changed since that century; perhaps it’s time for a review. The Great Trek, underta
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Bushbuck Reminiscences
EVER since I started hunting small antelope in the Mossel Bay area in the latter part of the sixties I have been fascinated by bushbuck – the dainty brown ewe and the fierce and beautiful black ram. In the early seventies I transferred to the Eastern
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Steiner Ranger 10x42 Laser Rangefinder Binocular
STEINER is a well-known name in the optics world and has been in business since 1947 when Karl Steiner started a one-man workshop in Bayreuth, Germany. Over the years Steiner has been responsible for a number of firsts in the optics world such as the
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Man Magnum Hunting Opportunities 2023
• Magnum is offering FREE Advertising to landowners who have hunting for sale to South Africans• Adverts will be published in the January/February 2023 and the March/April 2023 editions of Magnum and online at www.manmagnum.com• Adverts must not exce
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How Deadly Was The Donderbus?
THE name blunderbuss is derived from the Dutch donderbus, meaning thunder-gun (when I was a schoolboy in the 1950s, the Afrikaans word for gunpowder was buskruit). No doubt this weapon was so named for its very loud report, for it was typically a big
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Mountain Reedbuck
IN SOUTH AFRICA we are blessed with a variety of small antelope species, three of which are similar in size, namely the mountain reedbuck, the springbuck and the vaal rhebuck (some describe these as medium-size antelope). Springbuck prefer open plain
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Gift ideas
When testing scopes I have to mount them on one of my rifles, mostly my Sabatti Tactical in .308Win. This means that I’m bore sighting fairly often. Getting this done should be a lot easier and faster with the G-Sight Laser Bore Sighter (laser cartri
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Vortex Venom 5-25x56 FFP Riflescope
VORTEX riflescopes have an enviable reputation for quality and repeatability and the Venom 5-25x56 is their budget offering in first focal plane. This scope is clearly aimed at shooters starting out in long-range shooting and offers the benefit of a
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Kudu Hunting
DURING the last 20 years I have hunted in various parts of South Africa and my most challenging and satisfying hunts have been on foot for kudu. I have been fortunate to end a few of these opportunities with kudu biltong on the line but, at other tim
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Looking Back
GOING camping this holiday? Here are some creative ideas to consider for a ‘fun’ trip. (Original has been shortened.) New Camping Gear By Bruce Truter February 1995 I have been a camper for as long as I can remember. I used to go camping every school
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New Products From Ao Sports
Nikko Stirling was founded in 1956 and specializes in optics for hunters and marksmen. They have decades of practical experience which they incorporate into their designs and combine with their manufacturing know-how and component quality. The new Ni
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Hunting Rifle Balance
Among the reasons governing the average hunter’s choice of rifle are its brand name, its looks, its bolt-action design, or because it’s in the calibre he wants. Few seem to consider the importance of balance. Of course, if you shoot game from the bac
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Group Competitions
Die Skietwinkel in Bloemfontein is hosting four group shooting competitions during the year, with a fifth and final competition where the year’s best performers will shoot it out for the top honours. Each competition entails a short and sweet five-sh
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Subscriber Of The Month
Wayne lives in Gauteng and enjoys hunting in both Limpopo and the Eastern Cape. He is a meat hunter and mostly goes for blue wildebeest, impala, warthog and bushbuck. On his last hunt in the Cumberland district in Limpopo, he took two blue wildebeest

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