PrimerGuide
New to Doubles
Everything you need before you buy your first double rifle — calibre families, configurations, regulation, and what to ask a licensed dealer.
About this journal
ABOUT THIS
JOURNAL
The Nitro Field Journal is an independent Australian publication built on a love of double rifles and classic sporting rifles — the craftsmanship, the cartridges, and the heritage behind them. Written from an Australian perspective shaped by an African upbringing, it ranges across the great nitro-express doubles, the practical medium bores, drillings and combination guns, projectiles and ballistics, international big-game hunting, and the field gear that either earns its place or doesn't.
More than a catalogue of rifles, it exists to pass something on: to help the next generation of shooters and hunters build real, practical knowledge, and to test gear honestly — bought, never gifted. Most of all, it's a place to tell the stories of fellow hunters — their past adventures, the hunts and journeys behind them, the mentors and the rifles they carried — and to capture and immortalise those stories before they're lost.
How It Got StartedMy Merkel 140AE chambered in .500 Nitro Express
The journal
