flight shooting


nounArchery.
  1. competitive shooting for distance only.

Origin of flight shooting

1
First recorded in 1795–1805

Words Nearby flight shooting

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How to use flight shooting in a sentence

  • The whole of the above records refer to flight-shooting with a 12-bore gun.

    Unexplored Spain | Abel Chapman
  • A few of either species usually fall to our guns while flight-shooting during the winter months.

  • Flight-Shooting is merely a trial of distance, and he who can shoot the furthest is the winner of the trial.

    How to Fence | Aaron A. Warford
  • The man who goes flight shooting there is almost certain of good sport, provided he knows what he is about.

    Wild Ducks | W. Coape Oates
  • With your father's permission, you might, in the first place, invite me to an evening's flight shooting.