Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulders. Angry guards bayoneted one P.W. when he walked out on a Russian movie. A Texas corporal was forced to stand on tiptoe, his hands tied behind his back, his neck in a noose that would choke him if he sagged. Some were beaten. Said Sergeant Fisher Watkins: "They pistol-whipped me, but they didn't knock me down." He added confidently: "They couldn't hit you that hard...
...bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through the hearts of the targets...
...Point Barrier. One of the National's top events is its men's pistol match. Firing 270 rounds portioned equally among pistols of three calibers (.22, .38, .45), each marksman must blaze away in tests of slow fire (one shot a minute), timed fire (five shots in 20 seconds) and rapid fire (five shots in ten seconds). Target distances range from 25 to 50 yards. With each bull's-eye counting ten points, a total score of 2,700 is possible-but fantastically improbable. In some 50 years of National pistol contests, only nine men have ever...
...Camp Perry last week, are the nonpareils of pistoldom. Army Master Sergeant Huelet L. Benner, 35, who teaches pistolry to West Pointers, has broken 2,600 more times than he can recall, holds the official U.S. record of 2,644. Ex-Marine Major Harry Reeves, 44, now a pistol professor (as a lieutenant) for Detroit's police department, has cracked the point barrier some 30 times. His most amazing performance: a brilliant (but unofficial) U.S. record of 2,649 points...
...sweltering afternoon, Reeves was a shaky, sweaty wreck. But in each critical instant of firing, he aimed surely, squeezed the trigger steadily, guided his bullets by instinct, if not by sight. His 2,606 points beat Benner, who slipped to 2,595-a level only a handful of pistol-men can ever hope to attain. Harry Reeves's two daughters rushed up to buss him for winning his fifth National title. Harry smiled, but he felt shot...