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unusual facts about marksmanship



Battle of the Big Hole

As usual, Nez Perce marksmanship was excellent – although according to the warrior, Yellow Wolf, most of the Nez Perce warriors had fled without their weapons and only a few were armed.

Eugen Schauman

Schauman also arranged a series of marksmanship courses for local students in Helsinki.

Parker Hale

With influential backing, notably from Field Marshal Lord Roberts, efforts were made to improve the standard of marksmanship in the UK.

Shooting ranges in the United States

Both skeet and trap are Olympic sports (or, more precisely, are disciplines of an Olympic sport that are contested in the Summer Olympics), and are practiced by many bird hunters to sharpen their marksmanship.

United States Army Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

Upper and lower receivers: The rifles were produced by the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) at Fort Benning, Georgia using either new semi-automatic ArmaLite lower receivers or existing Army M16A2 or A4 lower receivers previously supplied by either Colt or Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.

The National Guard Marksmanship Training Center of the Arkansas Army National Guard conducts the fourteen day long Squad Designated Marksman Course at Camp Joseph T. Robinson.

USAMU

United States Army Marksmanship Unit, a unit established in 1956 at Fort Benning, Georgia to raise marksmanship standards throughout the U.S. Army

William Leushner

He served as a marksmanship instructor at Camp Perry during the first World War and one year with the American Army of Occupation from 1919-1920.

William Ramsay Smith

Witnesses also record that he practiced his marksmanship with a .303 rifle on corpses at the mortuary of Adelaide hospital.


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