ZIMBABWE’S MILLENNIUM SHOOT by I J Larivers
Originally published in Handguns magazine, May, 2000.
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Entries by I J Larivers
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, the Zambezi Valley, where lion and leopard and hyaena stalk their prey…Hurungwe is a true […]
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, it was a desperate attempt to safeguard a vanishing piece of Zimbabwe’s natural history heritage, and one ultimately doomed to […]
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 meek or timorous. But they are usually the type to be well-prepared and organized. […]
‘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 bedtime was my father’s Remington Rand .45 on the nightstand. […]
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 of training scenarios, but that it was the best we had. […]
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 divide the bullet’s momentum by its mass, you have its velocity. And lest anyone think this […]
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 my opinion, they were always better managed than their counterparts like the Selous in Tanzania and Mozambique’s Gorangosa. Rhodesian National Parks attracted, or […]
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 back in the days when holsters were made out […]
