“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,…
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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,…
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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ZIMBABWE'S MILLENNIUM SHOOT by I J Larivers
HURUNGWE by Trevor Heath (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
ZAMBEZI VALLEY, THE LOST STRONGHOLD by Silvana Olivo (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
WHEN THINGS GO PEAR-SHAPED IN THE 21st CENTURY by I J Larivers
'An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilised Age' by I J Larivers
DYNAMIC SHOOTING SPORTS AND THE PROFESSIONAL HUNTER by I J Larivers
CHRONOGRAPHS FOR THE 21st CENTURY by I J Larivers
National Parks and Wildlife Management, Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, 1928-1990 by Mike Bromwich (Reviewed by I J Larivers)
CLASSIC RANGE DRILLS by I J Larivers
The Whys and Hows of Hearing Protection By I J Larivers