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Examples
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I learned this from my grandmother who used to working in a shooting gallery and loved to hustle soldiers who just earned their markmanship badges.
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I learned this from my grandmother who used to working in a shooting gallery and loved to hustle soldiers who just earned their markmanship badges.
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I think they should teach markmanship and reloading in law school.
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There are few people alive or who have ever lived who could match her markmanship.
Source: Hillary TV Ad Campaign Is Now 100% Negative In Most Pennsylvania Markets 2009
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If the above is NOT a parody, it IS another fine example of the extremely poor markmanship of the Xian “God” has been displayed in the possible thousands of deaths and complete destruction of large portions of the ultra-maroon red Xian state of Mississippi.
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Mbuyazi told the court he was a member of a select offensive group of Caprivi trainees who were trained in house penetration and markmanship.
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The Commander-in-Chief of the FAR, of whom it is said that he puts the bullet where he aims, and whose markmanship with a rifle has been embroidered in fabulous legends, took a prone position like a sniper.
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The reckless daring, unerring markmanship, and unrivalled horsemanship of the Kid rendered his services a priceless acquisition to the ranks of the faction which could secure them.
The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954
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I earnestly urge that the increase asked for by the Secretary of the Navy in the appropriation for improving the markmanship be granted.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Magistrates trust that this idea, pretty as it is, may not spread to Suffragettes of acknowledged markmanship.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various
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