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  2. Shooting target - Wikipedia

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    Shooting target. A "splatter"-type paper target — 25 shots at a distance of 91 metres (100 yd), all hitting inside the bullseye within a 25 millimetres (1 in) grouping. An electronic scoreboard used for stangskyting in Norway in 2007 showing the number of hits for each shooter after the first half. Shooting targets are objects in various ...

  3. Target practice - Wikipedia

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    Target practice is a key part of both military training and shooting sports. It involves exercises where people shoot weapons at specific targets. The main goal is to improve the shooter's accuracy and skill with firearms. Through repeated practice, participants build essential abilities like aiming, trigger control, and firearm handling.

  4. Metallic silhouette shooting - Wikipedia

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    Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over. Metallic silhouette is shot with large bore rifles fired freehand without support out to 500 meters, and with large bore handguns from the prone ...

  5. 1951 USAF resolution test chart - Wikipedia

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    A 1951 USAF resolution test chart is a microscopic optical resolution test device originally defined by the U.S. Air Force MIL-STD-150A standard of 1951. The design provides numerous small target shapes exhibiting a stepped assortment of precise spatial frequency specimens. It is widely used in optical engineering laboratory work to analyze and ...

  6. Point shooting - Wikipedia

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    Point shooting. Point shooting (also known as target- [1] or threat-focused shooting, [2] intuitive shooting, instinctive shooting, subconscious tactical shooting, or hipfiring) is a practical shooting method where the shooter points a ranged weapon (typically a repeating firearm) at a target without relying on the use of sights to aim.

  7. NRA Precision Pistol - Wikipedia

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    NRA Precision Pistol. Kimber Raptor with a paper target, 91-1X score. NRA Precision Pistol, formerly known as NRA Conventional Pistol, [1] is a national bullseye shooting discipline organized in the United States by the National Rifle Association of America. Emphasis is on accuracy and precision, and participants shoot handguns at paper targets ...

  8. Target practice: Fuselage from artillery training plane ... - AOL

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    The fuselage of a Remote Control Aerial Target (RCAT) drone plane washed up on Marconi Beach in Wellfleet last week. The plane was used for anti-aircraft artillery training at Camp Wellfleet, a ...

  9. Tameshigiri - Wikipedia

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    Tameshigiri (試し斬り, 試し切り, 試斬, 試切) is the Japanese art of target test cutting. The kanji literally mean " test cut " ( kun'yomi: ためし ぎり tameshi giri ). This practice was popularized in the Edo period (17th century) for testing the quality of Japanese swords. [1] It continues to the present day, but has evolved ...