SHOOTING

the sport of firing at targets of various kinds with rifles, handguns (pistols and revolvers), and shotguns as an exercise in marksmanship. Additional reading Jaroslav Lugs, A History of Shooting (1968), with emphasis on marksmanship and exhibition shooting with rifle and handgun. N.H. Roberts and K.L. Waters, The Breech-Loading Single-Shot Match Rifle (1967), on Schuetzen (offhand) and rest shooting in the United States from about 1840 to the 1920s.