Quotes About Marksmanship

And I didn't neglect to point out to my Yankee buddies that most of the high shooters in our platoon were Southern boys.

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.

Jem became vaguely articulate: ''d you see him, Scout? 'd you see him just standin' there? … 'n' all of a sudden he just relaxed all over, an' it looked like that gun was a part of him… an' he did it so quick, like… I hafta aim for ten minutes 'fore I can hit somethin

If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart. Marksmanship's a gift of God, a talent--oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin's different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today.

Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't like he would take me to the ballet. We would go to a shooting range. It was the only thing he knew to teach his little girl how to do.

I'm a tomboy. I really love sports. I'm really looking forward to being the sniper gal, running around and shooting zombies. I find that really exhilarating.

you're a good shot, it doesn't matter how much stopping power a gun has." "If you're a good shot," I said solemnly, raising a hand to my breast, "you're probably already using a rifle.

Our Director had a vision, Sheriff Swagger. He envisioned a scientific national police force, incorruptible, untainted by ego, vanity, and politics. Alas, as we have learned, that also meant untainted by experience, toughness, cunning, and marksmanship. Lawyers make poor gunfighters.

Some 50 Americans were killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 94 casualties. According to Gage, the Redcoats suffered 65 killed, 157 wounded, and 27 missing, for a total of 272 casualties.41 The patriots exhibited excellent marksmanship for shooting flintlocks in anger, many for the first time in their lives. By comparison, U.S. forces in Vietnam expended 50,000 rounds to cause a single enemy casualty.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot." Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail? "I can shoot just fine." I just missed eighty percent of the time.

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident, Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. You broke my window. Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it. Twice. Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen. — J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

Shooting well with the rifle is the highest kind of skill, for the rifle is the queen of weapons; and it is a difficult art to learn.

Yet it is curious to see how a really truthful man will forget his misses, and his hits at close quarters, and, by dint of constant repetition, will finally persuade himself that he is in the habit of killing his game at three or four hundred yards.

I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.

Deadshot you're not.

Hey gunslinger... nice shot.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

I spent as much time on the rifle range as I spend with my knife in the peanut butter jar, I'd be a crack shot.