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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…
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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…