target-firing

The Israeli government says that the flotilla's intent to breach the blockade -- which has turned Gaza into a mix of open-air prison and live target-firing range for the last three years -- threatened the country's security.

Seth Freed Wessler: Israel, Gaza and the 'Lynching' of Morality 2010

The Israeli government says that the flotilla's intent to breach the blockade -- which has turned Gaza into a mix of open-air prison and live target-firing range for the last three years -- threatened the country's security.

Seth Freed Wessler: Israel, Gaza and the 'Lynching' of Morality 2010

Rifled cannon, breech-loaders and armored ships -- all the legitimate offspring of the Venetian barrel and its American employment -- have kept her ever since in a ferment of boards, commissions and target-firing.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

I know of no better school of practice for perfecting men in target-firing, and the use of firearms generally, than that in which the frontier hunter receives his education.

The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849

Here have they had a shooting-match -- target-firing I should call it -- this day, and what a different thing has it been from a target-firing afloat!

Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820

It must be apparent to every officer that both the rapidity and the accuracy of fire to be obtained from guns in vessels at sea, must depend, in a great degree, upon the care which may be taken to explain to the men the best mode of performing their respective parts of the exercise, and the particular object for which each part is intended, and especially on such frequency of exercise and target-firing as will make the men perfectly familiar with their prescribed duties.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance