Sentence examples for shooting competitions from inspiring English sources

MacArthur was given a gun for his 12th birthday and competed in shooting competitions.

Pigeons were sent in their tens of thousands to be released, one at a time, in shooting competitions back east.

The group, set up in the wake of import restrictions by the Clinton administration, argues that the imports would be used by collectors, in shooting competitions or for other legitimate purposes.

For their dues, N.R.A. members expect the group to send them its magazines, hold shooting competitions, conduct safety courses and offer N.R.A.-branded credit cards and other financial services.

The complaint is a collection of weak arguments that the law is hurting gun sales, is reducing attendance at shooting competitions and insults common guns by calling them "assault weapons".

Like shooting competitions.

The first All-Russian Championship shooting competition was held at Kiev in 1913 and a second at Riga in 1914.

In addition, Wu Xiaoxuan won a gold medal in the women's 50-metre rifle three-positions shooting competition, becoming the first Chinese woman to win a gold medal.

The N.R.A. ranked higher in the foundation's sport shooting competition with Congressional staff members: its chief lobbyist won a top honor for target shooting at the 2012 event, sharing that distinction with legislative aides to four House members and a senator.

Northern Ireland's David Calvert finished fourth in Tuesday's full bore shooting competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

It's pretty much what it sounds like a target shooting competition for cops.