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Quotes About Rifle

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.
~ Johnny Carson
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
~ Jeff Cooper
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
~ Edward Abbey
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.
~ Boo Weekley
You count the facts and it's so depressing. I can only eat baby food. My best friend screwed my fiancé. My fiancé almost stabbed me to death. I've set fire to a house and been pointing a rifle at innocent people all night. My brother I hate has come back from the dead to upstage me. I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Evie is standing halfway down the big staircase in the manor house foyer, naked inside what's left of her wedding dress, still holding her rifle.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jas once heard the story that the Jedi constructed their own lightsabers and she figured, well, why can't she do the same with her rifle? So she did. Because she can do whatever she wants.
~ Chuck Wendig
The muse of invention handed me a rifle and I shot a white bear who sat down and said: Ah.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Oh, hell, no. I saw you with the rifle." He glanced over at her, and his voice went a notch deeper. "It was fucking hot. I love a badass female.
~ Larissa Ione
Oswald waited by the window. Whenever his eyes searched Houston Street for the first signs of the motorcade, he was careful not to hold the rifle high in his hands. Someone on the ground might see him and warn the authorities.
~ James L. Swanson
That's a gun scope.
~ James Patterson
the platoon moves out to the rifle range barracks for basic rifle training . The gospel according to Parris Island is that shooting accurately is a matter of discipline: Even the clumsiest recruit can do it well if he follows the prescribed steps, from sighting and aiming, to proper positioning, to trigger control and sight adjustment. "Any person in the world can be a marksman if he applies himself
~ Thomas E. Ricks
I admit I was the guy who removed all the bullets from the assault rifle's extended magazine and then filled it with pot. But now I realize that was wrong because marijuana is dangerous.
~ Tim Dorsey
I've used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life. But there's a big difference between a U.S. Marine with a rifle and a civilian with a gun.
~ Seth Moulton
Dear Mrs. Gilmore, it's going to be alright. Only 4 of the 5 rifles are really loaded.
~ Norman Mailer
The judge sat that animal bareback like an indian and rode with his grip and his rifle perched on the withers and he looked about him with the greatest satisfaction in the world, as if everything had turned out just as he planned and the day could not have been finer.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Caudell hadn't touched a firearm since he left the army. His hands, he discovered, still knew what to do. The smell of oil and metal and powder that came from the rifle, the sensuously mechanical glide of the charging handle as he pushed it back to expose the open chamber, made him see the army's old Virginia campground almost as vividly as he did the courthouse where he stood. By the murmurs that rose from his comrades, they also had memories flooding back.
~ Harry Turtledove
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he is cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
~ leacock stephen ii
I felt like an Israeli girl soldier, in shorts and the hot wind, sighting down the barrel of the rifle, holding the .38 with both hands. It was a strange feeling, him looking at me as I aimed. I found I couldn't quite lose myself in the target. His eyes split my attention between the C in Coke and my awareness of him watching me. And I thought, this was what it was like to be beautiful.
~ Janet Fitch
I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.
~ Dan Crenshaw
In a mounting panic the samnite hefted his rifle and delivered a blast straight to Skullhammer's chest, point blank. Once again, torment and debilitation failed to ensue. 'Well, this is awkward,' said Juno.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
I don't have time every day to put on makeup. I need that time to clean my rifle.
~ Henriette Mantel