"a shooting match" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a phrase used to refer to a competitive shooting event. For example, "The shooting match at the local gun range attracted participants from across the state."
Gun attacks That summer, the St Paul's carnival turned into a shooting match.
Mr. Blinken has challenged Mr. Craig to a shooting match -- the sporting kind, of course.
Virtually every village and settlement had a shooting match on weekends and holidays, often attracting a hundred or more marksmen.
A dozen suspects were captured, in a shooting match outside the home of the alleged leader of Najaf's Baathist underground, Karim Ghaith.
The bottom line is, Tampa Bay cannot win a shooting match with the Rams (few teams can), but must do enough to complement its brick-like defense.
Guard members from South Sudan's two largest communities -- the Dinka and the second most populous, the Nuer -- had an argument that turned into a shooting match.
One stumble, a flash of anger, an inappropriate joke, a memory lapse or just a failure to bring your "A Game", and the whole shooting match can be over.
The public seems so immune to the usual sex, lies and other scandals involving our elected leaders that an MP would have to do something quite extraordinary to lose not just their seat in the house, but the whole damn shooting match (inventing a rumour that the Tory leader has an STD just won't cut it anymore).
It boils down the entire shooting match to a single letter grade that does not convey the full weight of this approach and lends itself to tabloid headlines instead of a real look at a school's problems.
"The conclusion of the study, not in a medical but in a psychological sense, is that connection is the whole shooting match," says Vaillant.
Or a new mutant, a point of entry for some, for others the whole shooting match?
