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gunmanship

  • a word derived from gunman.
    gunman
    noun
    a person armed with or expert in the use of a gun, especially one ready to use a gun unlawfully.

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Then he dashed over to Broadway to catch a performance of the new musicomedy, Destry Rides Again, after the show demonstrated some southpaw gunmanship to Stars Scott Brady, Dolores Gray and Andy Griffith.

From Time Magazine Archive

In other words, Walt must both be a Man with No Name, a Dirty Harry, and find a cause beyond duty or blood sport to atone for his Korean gunmanship.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was fond of Montoya in an offhand way, but with the lessons in gunmanship his fondness became almost reverence for the old man's easy skill and accuracy.

From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by R. M. Brinkerhoff

Startled—for, though all of them there were more or less trained shots, such swift, deadly gunmanship as this was utterly beyond their imaginations.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall