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    The Guru Of His Era
    Nick was unique. There never was anyone like him. He surpassed the likes of Cyril Waterworth and Colin Shadbolt, the gurus of their era. He was the Colonel Townsend Whelan of the 1970s and quickly established himself as arguably the world’s best tech
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    Greatest Gun-writer Ever?
    Australia has lost an icon. Hunters and shooters all over the world have lost a friend and living legend. Nick Harvey enjoyed an unusual and almost certainly world-record run of 69 years as a gun-writer. It’s a funny business. Few of us start as youn
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    A Farewell To A Great Man
    WHEN Marcus O’Dean handed over the editorship of Sporting Shooter to me, he joked about his relief that Nick Harvey hadn’t died on his watch. Losing someone of Nick’s irreplaceable standing is an editor’s nightmare. I dreaded it. Even the publisher q
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    The Voice Of Authority
    Nick Harvey was a beacon of passion and knowledge in the world of Australian hunting and shooting. His dedication to his craft was unmatched, evident in his meticulous articles that captivated readers and inspired enthusiasts around Australia and wor
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    A Formative Influence
    LONG before the days of internet, when information was not as accessible, we relied on magazines and books to collect data and research things like hunting, guns and ammunition. This is where it all started for me, like many others. We will remember
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    The Pursuit Of Excellence
    I didn’t grow up reading Nick Harvey’s words like many people in our community. It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I started hunting and shooting regularly and started consuming literature in this space in order to learn more and be entertain
    Sporting Shooter9 min read
    Ask The Gun Editor
    Nick Harvey passed away on 21 February 2024. He left us with scores of answers to readers’ questions that we have not yet published. To honour his memory, we will continue his column until we have run them all. Q I’ve been using a Remington Model 700
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    Nick ‘Bad Eye’ Harvey
    When I met Nick Harvey in 2012 at the opening of the new facility in Kahles, I saw for the first time the injury to his face after his chainsaw accident. He immediately laughed and told me, “Yes, it’s me, Nick ‘Bad Eye’ Harvey.” And we both started l
    Sporting Shooter5 min read
    Editing Uncle Nick
    I started my shooting life in the mid-1970s as a full bore shooter in a local rifle club and at school. I did very well as a junior shooter, partly because I used to buy Sporting Shooter at every opportunity and, disregarding the hunting articles, we
    Sporting Shooter7 min read
    Living The Life Of A Gun-writer
    WEEKS AFTER going to Finland, Nick was in the US, the first Australian ever invited to both the Winchester and Remington gun-writers’ seminars, an honour partly attributed to Winchester’s recent $1 million investment in its Geelong plant and partly t
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    Fair And Honest
    Thousands of shooters were following Nick Harvey before social media existed. He answered questions with technical expertise and wit, he told hunting stories the way he would do over a cuppa at his humble abode, and he reviewed products in an indepen
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
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    Sporting Shooter7 min read
    The Rise Of Hill End’s Hunter
    OVER A career lasting from the mid-1950s until his death on 21 February 2024, Nick Harvey wrote thousands of articles, published many books, was consulted in the development of new firearms, appeared as an expert witness in the NSW Coroner’s Court, g
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    Just One Gun?
    Nick Harvey’s longevity as an Australian gun-writer was truly remarkable. To put his career in perspective, I am in my late 50s and he had been writing for a full decade before I was born! I first struck Nick at a gun show in Melbourne at the Royal E
    Sporting Shooter4 min read
    A Gun-writer To The End
    IN AUSTRALIA, you retire at 65. Well, you used to, and when John Howard’s knee-jerk gun laws were enacted in 1996 Nick Harvey hit retirement age, the point at which many Aussies would cash in their last pay cheque and settle back for a few years of p
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    Weatherby / Zerotech Photo Competition
    BROUGHT TO YOU BY Powered By BROUGHT TO YOU BY TSA Australian distributor for weatherby, ZeroTech and Fiocchi. *THE WEATHERBY VANGUARD WILL BE CHAMBERED IN .223 WITH BLUED METALWORK AND SYNTHETIC STOCK With the basis of a cold hammer-forged 24-inch b
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    Ear Of The Dog
    PRESENTED BY HUNTING DEPOT LATE last year, due to rain, it’d been pretty quiet on some of our hunting blocks. Either it was very overgrown or swampy. However, I got a phone call from a property owner who had a dog hanging around the cattle. Steph and
    Sporting Shooter3 min read
    Nick’s Picks
    IT’S A LITTLE presumptuous to suggest what Nick’s favourite things were but he did make it pretty clear where his preferences lay and it was equally obvious that you didn’t have to cast around in all directions to find them. Nick kept it simple; he w
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    A Valuable Relationship
    It would be safe to say Nick Harvey was a fan of the Winchester Model 70. I suspect it is because it is where large-calibre rifles were born and that long association with the “gun that won the West”. When each new model of rifle arrived, Winchester
    Sporting Shooter4 min read
    The One To Keep
    Shortly after Yaffa acquired Sporting Shooter from Rodger Hungerford in 1969, Nick joined the team as gun editor. He held this position for nearly 50 years and filed his last piece (before deadline, as was his disciplined approach) only a month befor
    Sporting Shooter4 min read
    Lessons From The Master
    I FELT I KNEW him well before I met him through his hunting stories and test reports. Like many of us, I grew up reading of Nick Harvey’s hunting sojourns and carefully took note of his technical advice. But it wasn’t until 1991 that I met the man in
    Sporting Shooter2 min read
    Times Have Changed
    WE lost one of the giants of the Australian shooting community when veteran firearms expert, hunter and gun-writer Nick Harvey passed away at the venerable age of 92. His loss will be keenly felt by everyone reading this, and what adds to the loss is
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    Time Well Spent
    I spent some time with Nick and Nancy at their place in Hill End. Nick is just such a gentleman to talk to. Whatever I asked him, he always had the right answer, straight off the top of his head. I also spent a little time with Nick, Marcus and Tony
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    Bacon Busters
    COMPETITION BROUGHT TO YOU BY ENTRIES: Please email your high resolution. jpg or. png pig hunting image as an attachment to the email addressed to mickmatheson@yaffa.com.au – all images must be at least 1MB in size. For entry to be valid the followin
    Sporting Shooter6 min read
    The Practical Reloader
    MANY Sporting Shooter readers reload their own ammunition. Of those, some readers experiment with different powders, projectiles and primers — and maybe dive into neck lengths, seating depths and the finer details of case prep. But how many sign up f
    Sporting Shooter6 min read
    A Hunter’s Heart
    GET CLOSE. If you can’t get close, you’re not hunting. Get close, so you know the shot will hit, the animal won’t suffer, the job will get done. Getting close is also the gratification piece, the hunting bit — the component of the hunt that separates
    Sporting Shooter8 min read
    The Lore According To Uncle Nick
    “Shoot off your hind legs, like a man!” A comment attributed to Nick when referring to people who can only shoot well from a bench etc. “Where you hit your game is far more important than what you hit it with.” On shooting skills versus calibre, Augu
    Sporting Shooter5 min read
    Proof Testing
    WHEN NICK Harvey said most would-be gun-writers don’t know what they’re talking about, it was hard to disagree, even if you were another gun-writer. If you were, you just hoped you fell into the next category Nick mentioned: the small minority that k
    Sporting Shooter1 min read
    Sporting Shooter
    Editor: Mick Matheson Email: mickmatheson@yaffa.com.au In memory of Technical Editor Nick Harvey, 1931-2024 Contributors: Tony Pizzata, Dylan Smith, Graham Park, Jared Matthews, Peter Aichberger, Col Allison, Craig Boddington, Mark Herron, Breil Jack
    Sporting Shooter7 min read
    The enduring 7x64 Brenneke
    FOR some inexplicable reason, a number of excellent European cartridges receive little attention from Aussie shooters. This may be because they are designated by foreign nomenclature, which we tend to shy away from, or they have not been adequately p

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