shoot-off

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.

That was a considerable sensible commandment of yourn, always to shoot the foremost of the Mexicans when they attacked.

"But I don't see what you can shoot with it," said Davy, feeling that he was somehow getting the worst of the argument.

Thereafter he ran away from school twice, having been seized with a romantic and irresistible desire to see and shoot a lion!