Now the seamen distributed themselves for more leisurely and accurate marksmanship.

I would weigh out the powder charges as nicely as an apothecary weighs his drugs, for I had discovered that with the pistol the weight of bullet and charge meant much for good marksmanship.

He only laughed and cried after me that, if my manners were the equal of my marksmanship, I would be the best lad he had seen since his home-coming.

When an arrow flies wide we are merely amused at the poor marksmanship; but the closer the arrow strikes to the center the more excited we groweither with resentment or admiration, according to our sympathies.

Sir Percy Scott, admiral in the British navy, who through his inventions made possible the advance in marksmanship with heavy guns and increased the possibilities of hitting at long range and of broadside firing, said recently that everything he has done to enhance the value of the gun is rendered useless by the advent of the latest type of submarine, a vessel which has for its principal weapon the torpedo.

"And then their bad marksmanship, with all this snipingthey don't care, you see, whether they pot us or not.

As if to improve his marksmanship, he shot at birds and fruits, even the butterflies, with such accurate aim that the friar-administrator did not dare to go to Sagpang without an escort of civil-guards, while the friar's hireling, who gazed from afar at the threatening figure of Tales wandering over the fields like a sentinel upon the walls, was terror stricken and refused to take the property away from him.

The marksmanship of both sides seems to have been poor for no one appears to have been injured.

The effect of fire and the influence of the ground in relation thereto, and the individual and collective instruction in marksmanship, are treated in the Small-Arms Firing Manual.

Individual skill in marksmanship is an advantage in battle only when united with fire discipline and control.

PRELIMINARY TRAINING IN MARKSMANSHIP.

Good marksmanship consists in learning thoroughly the details of Holding the rifle in the various positions.

It was slow, hard work, under a blazing July sun and a perfect hail-storm of bullets, which, thanks to the poor marksmanship of the Spaniards, "went high.

Doubtless this was done to encourage good marksmanship.

For half an hour after that Aldous listened to a recital of the strange things that had happenedhow poor marksmanship had saved MacDonald on the mountain-side, and how at last the duel had ended with the old hunter killing those who had come to slay him.

It is calculated to improve their marksmanship, to teach them to grasp an opportunity, to apply their tactical training, and to render them cool in the hour of crisis.

That of the Germans, intended to destroy the road from Meaux and to cover their retreat, showed marksmanship so accurate and execution so terrible as, while it lasted, to render pursuit impossible.

I know where the French batteries were, and if the German guns aimed at them by error missed them and hit the cathedral, the German marksmanship is deteriorating.

A party of scouts, true wilderness veterans, equal to their foes in woodcraft and cunning, and superior in marksmanship and reckless courage, might follow and scatter some war band and return in triumph with scalps and retaken captives and horses.

You've had a poor chance to practise marksmanship; but maybe you can shoot well enough to hit a man of my size from the rearfor my men will be to the rear of me in a fight" He stopped and looked straight in Magnus's eyes; and Magnus stared straight back.

He was known to be a man of absolute fairness, and qualified to judge marksmanship.

Bradford bragged no more about his fine gun and superior marksmanship.

My opponents boasted a good deal of their superior marksmanship, but on the trial, which began at short range, I beat them all pretty badly.

Marksmanship decided the result, and the returns proved that the American fire was superior to that of the British in the proportion of more than fifty per cent, if estimated by the entire loss, and of two hundred and forty-two to one hundred if estimated by the deaths alone.

For fifteen years the greatest attention has been paid to marksmanship, and I suppose four-fifths of all the men in that army wore on their breasts the marksman's badge.