With voting in the Great British Shooting Awards closing on 31 December, we take a look at two categories of interest to rifle shooters. Rifle of the year, sponsored by ATN Mauser M18 The newest workhorse rifle from the Blaser…
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GBSAs: What gets your vote?
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Sporting Rifle 176 is out NOW
We’re ringing in 2020 with a massive bumper issue that you actually can’t miss. It’s a 4-in-1 package with a 32-page bonus mag, 70-minute DVD and 2020 wallplanner along with the usual magazine. You just don’t get any better than…
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Stalking essentials, as chosen by our contributors (part 4)
This is our fourth and final part in the stalking essentials series, as chosen by Sporting Rifle’s contributors. Last time, we heard from Byron Pace regarding essential mountain hunting gear, and in our final bumper part, we have picks from…
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Stalking essentials, as chosen by our contributors (part 3)
This is part three in our four part series of essential gear, as chosen by our Sporting Rifle contributors. Yesterday we hard from Paul Childerley on lowland stalking. This time it’s the turn of Byron Pace to give us the…
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Contributors’ choice: Essential collection
Sporting Rifle’s contributors tell us what gear they really rely on for a wide range of hunting purposes – from foxing to stalking to sport abroad. Credit: Byron Pace Scottish stalking gear, by Chris Dalton As a professional stalking guide,…
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The ultimate Christmas gift list
The Sporting Rifle team have put together a list of everything they want for Christmas – and we reckon you’ll want it all too… Eley Hawk Diary The Eley Hawk 2020 shooter’s diary is available to order directly from Eley…
The Calibre Hunter: Ackley Improved
Byron Pace looks over the family of Ackley Improved cartridges and their originator I would be surprised if most readers of Sporting Rifle hadn’t heard of the Ackley Improved cartridges. Though only a small handful made it into factory production,…
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Sporting Rifle 175 is out NOW
To order or subscribe, just visit: https://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/field19d/Sporting-Rifle.html Get ready for the coming season with the latest issue of Sporting Rifle – it’s a winter hunting special, full of tales of hunts in frigid climes, remote and wintry parts of the…
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Chris Parkin tests the Mars 4 from ATN
Chris Parkin hopes for an otherworldly performance he assesses the newest thermal imager from ATN, the Mars 4 The ATN Mars 4 has looks similar to its NV sibling, the X-Sight, except for the reflective silver sheen to the 47mm…
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Sporting Rifle 174 is out NOW
November brings possibly the biggest change of seasons in the whole year, as roebucks go out of season and females of the roe, red, fallow and sika species all come in, as well as Chinese water deer of both sexes.…
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