Reloading for Accuracy – Part 2: Resizing Your Brass – Are you doing it right?
In this article, I’ll focus on one of the basic reloading processes, showing you how to look after your expensive brass and get consistent accuracy.
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Pursuit of Excellence: The future of game management – Part 2
Do I want a suboptimal outcome for the hunting and conservation of our beautiful backcountry, or do I want the best outcomes that enable world-class hunting?
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Going Lightweight for Small to Medium Game
I was on the lookout for a replacement rifle for my Howa 1500 .223 to use as a goat, wallaby and smaller deer rifle.
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Ageing Tahr on the Hoof
The magnificence imparted by his leonine mane and grizzly-like bulkiness was accentuated by the plainness of the surrounding nannies, truly marking him the king of the mountain.
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Hunting Hacks and DIY
After a recent hunting trip, it dawned on me that I really needed to pull finger and sort out a better location at home to hang game animals while processing the meat.
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Ageing Fallow Bucks on the Hoof
With synchronised steps, two fallow bucks strut straight towards the small cabbage-tree clump sheltering me, blinded to my nearness by their unwavering focus on each other.
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Metal in your Meat? A global research study
In 2009, I was cutting the front quarter of an animal apart and found a small lead fragment behind the shoulder blade.
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Reloading for Accuracy
This is the first article in a series that will focus on the process and equipment required to make accurate hand loads. Straight up, it won’t cover every aspect of reloading but will instead focus on key aspects that have the biggest influence on accuracy.
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Wind Wins
A wise shooting instructor named Rit Fisher once told me, “Wind wins, every time.”
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Hunting Tight Bush to Open Plains
Following on from previous articles, I’d like to float some ideas to you on the two extremes of hunting and the techniques needed to be successful in each.
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Ageing Stags on the Hoof
Tremendous roars rattle through the trees. The sounds of brush and ground being trampling grows closer as the stag charges in.
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Nose to Tail Whole Animal Butchery – Part 2
When thinking of a whole cut, my mind instantly jumps to station life; I can see the fat melting down around a lamb leg roast ...
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