WHAT IS FIREARM PROFILING? by I J Larivers
The basis of forensic ballistic profiling are markings left on fired cartridge cases by extractors, ejectors, firing pins, and even machining marks on a firearm's breach face
A few months ago, Central
Firearms Registry embarked upon what…
ZIMBABWE'S MILLENNIUM SHOOT by I J Larivers
Originally published in Handguns magazine, May, 2000.
HURUNGWE by Trevor Heath (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
“Imagine
yourself. Your vehicle overturned by an angry elephant, the tantrum of which
you escaped by a hair’s breadth. You are unarmed, with no food and water, and
lost in one of the remotest arid valleys of the African wilderness,…
ZAMBEZI VALLEY, THE LOST STRONGHOLD by Silvana Olivo (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
This is an important book.
Operation Stronghold. Initiated in 1984 to protect the
endangered black rhinoceroses of the Zambezi Valley against cross-border
poaching incursions by Zambian gangs in the employ of powerful cartels in
Lusaka,…
WHEN THINGS GO PEAR-SHAPED IN THE 21st CENTURY by I J Larivers
Caution, n. Heedfulness, care.” Well, that’s the way the folks at Harper Collins Publishers see it in their fine dictionary that sits atop my desk.
Those who travel to the Dark Continent in search of the unusual are not normally the…
'An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilised Age' by I J Larivers
I have had a meaningful relationship with the
1911-type .45 ACP for forty years now. It was – almost but not quite – the
first centre fire handgun I ever owned, and long before that I remember a regular
fixture in my parents’ room at…
DYNAMIC SHOOTING SPORTS AND THE PROFESSIONAL HUNTER by I J Larivers
Speaking on the range
in respect of Practical Pistol shooting with other competitors back in the
1990s when we were on the local competition circuit, we said that the
discipline might not really be all that practical in a real world sense in
terms…
CHRONOGRAPHS FOR THE 21st CENTURY by I J Larivers
In
the beginning, there was the ballistic pendulum, invented by Benjamin Robins back
in the 18th century. The pendulum, which deflects a given distance
when struck by a projectile, is intended to measure the momentum of a bullet.
If you…
National Parks and Wildlife Management, Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, 1928-1990 by Mike Bromwich (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
Rhodesia
(later Zimbabwe) probably had the African continent’s flagship Game Department
for almost half a century. Zimbabwean national parks like Hwange, Gonarezhou
and Matusadona remain prime, untamed African wilderness even today. In…
CLASSIC RANGE DRILLS by I J Larivers
I was sitting in the pub after a day’s shooting at The Harare Gun Club, and a few of us were discussing “the good old days”. Some things from then were better than others, I suppose. Most of us had shot the local Practical Pistol circuit…