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…
MORE 21st CENTURY PRACTICAL RANGE TRAINING DRILLS
By I J
Larivers
In 1976, at the Colombia Conference held in the USA, the
International Practical Shooting Confederation was born. Born, in the case of
some delegate nations, by real-world bush wars, and urban terrorist incursions.
It…
WHAT ARE "OUTLAW" SHOOTING SPORTS? by I J Larivers
First, some background. There are a number of world bodies which administer various shooting sport disciplines. The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) regulates the Olympic disciplines. The International Practical Shooting Confederation…
THE OLDER WAYS ARE NOT OBSOLETE by I J Larivers
I'm not a big fan of off-body carry, but the Mexpedition bags are outstanding kit!
I have always personally been a follower of calibres that started with the Holy Number Four, and that, in those days, usually meant .45ACP. I always carried…
ZIMBABWE'S MILLENNIUM SHOOT by I J Larivers
Originally published in Handguns magazine, May, 2000.
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…
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…
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…