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Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
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It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
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About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
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The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.
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The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
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I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy. Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.
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But a sniper rifle was a matter of pure mechanics. Brace it, breathe properly, squeeze rather than pull the trigger, and it was just a projection of will across distance.
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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
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Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
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Shooting is my principal pastime.
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Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting ... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
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Archers are pretty focused.
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Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.
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Although I look really good holding a gun, I can't shoot. I can't shoot anything. I'm the worst shot.
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.
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I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
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I'm not a great hunter. But I have fired guns in the past, when I was growing up. But it was part of growing up where I lived. You go out hunting or target practice. They also taught you to respect guns.
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Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting.
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No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
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Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring sight.
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Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.
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One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
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It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
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But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at dock or plover
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
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A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.
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Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.
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It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.
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If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?
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Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.
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The conversation of bullets.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
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Didn't at least one of them miss when they shot at you?' [Sumi said to Dancer][...] 'Yeah, I always wanted to be that hero in a movie where no one can shoot straight except me. Never happens. I seem to always walk into the school of award-winning sharpshooters.' [Dancer replied.]
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Only accurate rifles are interesting
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Don't aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees.
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I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
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Aim High and Hit the Mark
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The sport of shooting is my life.
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It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
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To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.
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Don't shoot fast, shoot good.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
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Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target.
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Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
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Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.
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I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.
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There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.
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Drew had never before shot like he did that day, nor has he since. It was something to see. The contest had just begun when he walked up, aimed, and felled a cluster from the very top of the boughs.
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I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.
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Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.
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Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.
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I shoot from the hip.
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I focused on the gun. I would show what him what needed to be done. Like you even know what to do with that, mocked Tucker.
I glanced dwon, flicking the safety off. It's a nine millimeter, isn't it. I just pull back the slide, aim and fire. With a steady hand, I chambered the first round. Click.
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Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
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A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.
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Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.
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My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
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You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.
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Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
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When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
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Shoot first and ask questions not at all
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When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?
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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
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Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.
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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
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It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
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The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.
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I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.
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How do you have an armed siege without guns?' 'She used Olympic standard archery equipment,
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In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.
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Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?" The
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A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
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The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.
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Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.
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Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.
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If you draw the gun and don't shoot right. you're shot down!
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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What you doin' with this gun?
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What the hell was she doing on the nonhostage side of a handgun?
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When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.
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I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.
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Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard.
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I should have done target practice.
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Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
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Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.
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Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals
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If you can see it, you can shoot it.
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When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.
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No weapon is more powerful than he who aims it.
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Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.
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Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. And if your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough.