On Target Africa August/September 2021

Being at the printers when the first proof copies of the latest edition come hot off the press has to be one of my favourite aspects of publishing. Way back in the 1980s, I remember newspaper production managers calling for ‘off stone’. As intriguing as it sounds, in fact it had nothing to do with a stone, but was rather the absolute final submission for the Litho positives before the presses were readied to print the daily newspaper. Over time, these terms have evolved to ‘deadline to upload’, ‘deadline to deliver’, and even more deadlines in the print media world. Over the last 18 months, new words have now become part of the publishing cycle due to technology. In May 2020, my small team and I were registered as Google Developers…

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We appreciate every person’s feedback, as we are growing the firearm industry together. Our dedicated team of developers work hard daily to bring consumers a piece of technology that meets their needs and provides a trusted resource as the go-to platform for information. Who would have thought a month ago that having the Firearms Control Act in your pocket, accessible anywhere and anytime, ready to be activated at your fingertips was possible without having to search relentlessly on the internet, social media or even through your phone’s file manager. That’s silly, right? No, Arms & Wildlife did it in an easy, accessible, convenient and resourceful way. In our Legal feature, a few seconds is all you need. In this short period we have identified key areas to improve the functionality, capabilities and…

If you’re familiar with the area, it is the commercial park next door to Radiant Lighting on the M1 freeway. Not only is Southern Sky Operations a retail gunshop, it has a wholesale division and is also heavily involved in firearm training. I was invited to attend a civilian training and shooting day at its indoor ranges in Wynberg, where I met with head of training Darryl Larsen. Darryl, or ‘Dee’ as some people call him, is not your average, conservative Tactical Timmy type of firearm trainer, nor does he pretend to have all the answers. I found him a very intelligent, down-to-earth kind of guy who clearly has years of firearm experience. Yet he freely admits that there are rapid changes in the firearm environment and, as a trainer, it…

Since most malfunctions are ammunition related, and most concern deformed, bulging or otherwise defective brass, dropping the ammunition into a gauge is an effective way to reduce the chance of a costly malfunction. Many sports shooters reload their own ammunition, and hence checking it for consistency is a must, especially for competition purposes. The Armanov Ammo Checker is machined from the highest-grade aluminium, with pockets finished using a special reamer made to tight CIP tolerance specifications. The height of the gauge box is precisely machined to the maximum overall round length of the respective calibre to help find rounds with insufficiently seated bullets. It is available in 9x19, 9x21, 38 Super Comp, .40S&W, 10 mm Auto, .45ACP and .357 Mag /.38 Special calibres. A new extra feature is the bottom caved level…

Movement Coach 180 Firearms Training Compartmentalisation Compartmentalisation is one of the hardest things for most people to do in a competition…unless, I suppose, if you were a sociopath. Many competitive shooters have Type A personalities and like everything to be perfect. Nothing is perfect; so how do you focus beyond that? Imagine you’re at a match and it’s a beautiful day, you just got a promotion, you proposed to your girl and she said yes, you’ve been smashing your workouts, and you are dominating Modern Warfare this week. You feel satisfied, confident, you’ve been training hard, and you are ready to rock this match! Sometimes our lives feel awesome and sometimes bad things happen that we have to focus through. Now imagine you showed up to a match like a bad country song. You…