Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of shooting flying birds.
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Examples
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On another note, Orvis also has a great book on wing-shooting, The Orvis Wing-Shooting Handbook.
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On another note, Orvis also has a great book on wing-shooting, The Orvis Wing-Shooting Handbook.
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BSU hunting is essentially a combination of big-game and wing-shooting.
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During two days of fast wing-shooting, two friends and I shot dozens of birds over top-performing pointers.
Lodge of the Month: Quail Hunting Texas at LaFonda Ranch 2006
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He was so big that he would have made good wing-shooting.
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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It destroyed the instinctive, superconscious accuracy valuable in all games of skill, but absolutely necessary to such things as skating, boxing, wrestling, wing-shooting, tennis and the like.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909
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Tenderfoot, but I hitched my six-shooter around to the front, resolved to find out how good I was at wing-shooting horses.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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Billy Burnett is a lifelong quail hunter and East Texan who says he always wanted to develop his own hunting spot in East Texas, a place where he could enjoy raising the birds and giving hunters starved for wing-shooting by drought the opportunity for a good hunt on good land.
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Billy Burnett is a lifelong quail hunter and East Texan who says he always wanted to develop his own hunting spot in East Texas, a place where he could enjoy raising the birds and giving hunters starved for wing-shooting by drought the opportunity for a good hunt on good land.
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If you're a hunter, the options right now are about as good as they get, as the fall turkey season got under way this past Saturday (open through Nov. 29), squirrel hunting is in, there are several different wing-shooting opportunities, and archery deer hunting is 30 days into a five-month season.
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