The phrase "a trained marksman" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has received training in shooting firearms accurately.
Example: "The competition featured several skilled participants, including a trained marksman who had won multiple awards."
Alternatives: "an expert shooter" or "a skilled marksman."
Even trained marksman hesitate to fire bullets into crowds for fear of hitting an innocent person.
Farmers would need a special licence and training, and most of the shooting is likely to be done by trained marksmen hired by a group of farmers covering a large area.
It will test whether trained marksmen can shoot a badger in the heart and/or lung area without causing any unnecessary suffering, meet the planned cull targets and ensure there is no risk to public safety.
The only known case of a botched execution by firing squad, in 1951 in Utah, appears to have been an act of vengeance on the part of five trained marksmen pulling the trigger.
Perhaps there is a good deal to be said for such efforts of commerce to persuade trained marksmen to busy themselves with shots not fired in anger.
Capable of firing 1,200 rounds per minute, the Mac 10 is notoriously difficult to control, even for trained marksmen.
It's certainly a league ahead of other devices I've used, where the buttons were nigh on impossible to hit for those who aren't trained marksmen.
Under the new regulations, up to 5,094 free-running badgers can now be shot by trained marksmen: 2,932 in west Gloucestershire and 2,162 in west Somerset.
Ray has argued that trained marksmen offer faster and more humane deaths than the drawn-out ones sometimes seen in lethal injections.
Animal welfare and wildlife campaigners have opposed the cull, which will allow wild badgers to be shot by trained marksmen when the animals venture out of their setts at night.
