Sentence examples for rifle position from inspiring English sources

Choose your rifle position.

But the most common rifle position is the butt of the stock in the pocket of your shoulder (just above your armpit), your cheek lightly against the stock, looking down the sights or scope in the most relaxed position possible.

More than 20 snipers, some carrying assault rifles, positioned themselves behind concrete barriers high above on highway bridges and aimed their weapons at the officers below them.

But at both Games, Emmons misfired on his final shot in the 50-meter rifle three position, missing out on a spot at the podium both times, finishing eighth in 2004 and fourth in 2008.

Heading into the 50-meter rifle three position final here Monday afternoon, Emmons was in second place with a score of 1,172, trailing Niccolo Campriani of Italy, who scored 1,180.

— JOANNE C. GERSTNER Sergei Martynov won the first gold medal for Belarus in the London Olympics, setting a world record in the 50 meter Rifle (Prone Position).

Her emotional redemption came five days later with gold in the 50m rifle 3 position.

Having failed to defend her title, her redemption came five days later in the 50m rifle 3 position.

She landed individual silver at the 2013 European Championships and won team bronze in the 50m Rifle 3 position competition at the World Championships in Germany in July.

His next international stop was the 1952 ISSF World Shooting Championships, where he took home gold in the 50 m rifle prone position with 60 (individual and team) and 40 shots (individual) and the bronze in the 300 m standard rifle (individual) and 50 m rifle prone position with 40 shots (team).

He then took up a job at the Pratt Institute in the photography department and began training for the 1949 ISSF World Shooting Championships, where he won gold in the 50+100 m rifle prone position individual event and silver in the team version.