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TODAY HE WORD ‘myth’ is generally app d to a popular or long-held belief th s actually untrue or unscientific. In the case of wildlife, hunters of a bygone era observed certain apparent anomal nd drew wrong conclusions, thereby creating myths – such

FIFTY-TWO YEARS ago, I was a 17-year-old cadet game ranger in Rhodesia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management, and I was about to witness for the first time the extremely close social cohesion within an elephant cowherd. Mere months

IN 1897 JOHN Moses Browning was granted a patent for a small 7.65mm (.32 bre) pistol. The Belgian firm of Fab e Nationale d’Armes saw its potential and marketed it as the Pistolet Aut tique Browning Modéle 1900. It became so popular that in many part

THINKIN ACK ON having carried a defensive handgun almost every day for th st 30 years reveals that my needs, habits and abilities have changed a have aged. The fact that these day m mostly sitting behind a desk and not getting enough exercise, is hea

LOCKDOWN, DAY 13, on a farm west of Randfontein; boredom was starting to set in. What’s a man to do during this time of Covid-19 in order to stay sane? Boredom turned to shock and anger when I perceived that determined invaders were now posing a thre

STEINER HAS INCORPORATED a few innovative designs in their Wildlife series binoculars that make using and carrying these glasses a breeze. Weighing only 716g (10x42 model) they are considerably lighter than my old Leica Trinovid 10x42 BN at 890g. Thi

THIS YEAR, THE Marlin Firearms Company, fou d in 1870, celebrates its 150th anniversary. Marlin will mark the event by nufacturing presentation grade commemorative Model 444 and Model 60 22 rifles as well as commemorative am nition. Theirs is a long

IN SCOTLAND, ‘GHILLIE’ refers to a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition and the ghillie suit was created by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blin t camouflages the shooter’s en odyfromthelegstotheneck, even the

DU G THE PAST fifty-five years, I hav been fortunate e to unt a considerable variety of game. However, it has alw ys been on my wish w l st to hunt the larg of all antelope – the eland. In August 2012, an opportunity arose whe was invite to hunt an e

THE ADMIRATION A large kudu bull kindles in a hunter will prevail as long as kudu exist. Market demand for yet bigger kudu bulls has led to the intensive breeding of some truly breath-taking specimens. Kudu hunts make the st amazing stories and for s

SPORT SHOOTING IS expensive, and to compete at the highest level, shooters go to great lengths to source the best ammo components, and spend many hours preparing their cartridge cases to ensure near-perfection. Quality cases, especially if imported,

THE CRONUS IS Athlon Optics’ leading range of scopes for long-distance sport shooting and tactical work. Magnum’s test model had the Advanced Precision Long Range (APLR) first focal plane IR MRAD reticule. The scope is 365.7mm long without the sunsha

IN PART 2 of this series I gave a brief résumé of events des ed by Harry Manners in his book Kambaku. I broached que ti ns arising from Harry’s imp on that tusks in a photo in K akuwere from his bull, ‘Monarch of Murripa’, when they were actually tho

THE M3K IS a compeition-ready, semi-auto shotgun from Stoeger Industries part of the Benelli US family of companies in Maryland. Stoeger has long history of manufacturing shotguns and other arms, an their name has become synonymous with high-quality

BAC N OCT ER 2019, Magnum published a pie ntitled ‘Puzzling out our ropellants’, which covered the problems s experienced by shooters of old time weapo when substituting new locally made black powders for the ove s impo s that are no longer available