Articles from Sporting Shooter magazine on hunting big game in Australia.


Bucks in rut and the .308

Having hunted the fallow bucks with a few calibres, I've been thinking about the most consistent one for varying shots and situations. The standout for me has been the .308 Winchester.

My top menil fallow buck

Top trophy:Alex hasn't scored these antlers yet, but it's easily his best menil buck.

Despite hunting this area for years, Alex Juris unexpectedly comes across a classic trophy fallow buck just four days into deer season ... while hunting pigs!

Harry’s first Sambar hunting success

Inspecting a rub tree

Simon Wardale recounts a little mate’s initial deer hunting success.

The good and the bad of chital hunting

Ted and John with the 300yard bang flop stag.

Ted Mitchell Snr hunts chital with his mate, John, in the afternoon sun of March.

Buffalo hunting adventure

We are off on a buffalo hunting adventure in the top end with first time writer, Craig Clohesy.

Hunting the Cover Buck

Chris Burton had an adventurous hunt in search of a buck that made the cover of Sporting Shooter.

The buck that made it onto the cover of Sporting Shooter was the best we'd seen in the lead-up to the rut. It had Chris's name on it, but the question was whether we'd be able to find it.

Following fallow

Because Alex souted pre-season, he capitalised by shooting this nice buck in season but before the full-on rut.

Alex Juris is back with his latest report and stunning photos of fallow bucks in velvet, while he scouts in the leadup to the rut.

Double trouble

It's hard enough to get the drop on a good scrub bull, but managing two big, cranky beasts is impressive. Sometimes you surprise yourself... Premium

Alex's spiker

Alex Juris shot this spiker after a good stalk through fairly open country.

A stalk doesn't go much better than this! Alex Juris came across a young fallow and worked his way into shooting range using what little cover there was.

Big game hunting in the Northern Territories

Wife gave me a Fabarm under and over rifle in 9.3x74R so I organised a hunting trip to NT for big game including buffalo and pigs.

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Chamois hunting in the summer of NZ

Gerard Abrams takes the Summer time prior to the deer rut in NZ’s Fiordland to capitalise on the availability of tough little chamois on readily accessible blocks.