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CLASSIC SNUB-NOSED REVOLVERS
I J Larivers
A little Astra .36 Special issued by National Parks Investigations in the '80s
When I first started shooting, we didn’t have much choice in handguns. The only self-loaders that my friends and I would look at were the…
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'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…
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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…
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The Whys and Hows of Hearing Protection By I J Larivers
Good quality active hearing protectors.
When I first started shooting competitively, most of my club’s committee consisted of the ‘old guard’- folks who’d been on the range or around firearms a lot for most of their lives, throughout…