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Target practice

noun

Practice in shooting at targets.

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"Target practice" Quotes from Famous Books

... The "dudes" were at target practice with 22's and six-shooters, having been persuaded finally not to use Mr. Canby's range as a background. They now all walked with a swagger and seldom went to their ...

— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart

... exhibition of uncanny target practice with bulging eyes. As the echoes of the last shot died away, he turned on The Kid with a ...

— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

... first line of defense, is inadequately manned, short of ammunition, and has no organized reserve of trained men. Our submarine flotilla exists chiefly upon paper. Fast scout cruisers, battle cruisers, aeroplanes, mine layers, supply ships, and transports are lacking. Target practice has been ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... soft!" said one chap in Whistler's gun crew disgustedly. "Pretty soft for us! We fellows going out to target practice, while those battleships already on the other side of this periscope pond may be fighting the Fritzies ...

— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson

... occurred. The soldiers from the barracks happened to be marching down to do target practice on the shore, and were passing the convict prison when the firing broke out. They were at once halted, and ordered to load, and as the convicts, with exultant shouts, poured through the gate they saw a long line of soldiers, with leveled ...

— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty

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