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...pistolmen have already shown their mettle by winning two thirds and a fourth in the strong nine club Metropolitan League. Coach Bixby expects his protegees to do even better in future intercollegiate and metropolitan matches. Recently the members of the team have been too busy gunning for mid-years to keep in practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadeye Rifle Team Squints Toward Southerners Tonight | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

Thomas Ripley's new account of Hardin's gory career is a turbulent, romantic book in which guns roar on almost every page, remorseless pistolmen pink each other with grave aplomb, and hair-trigger gunplay is described in purple passages that smoke and crackle. Although he debunks some Western myths, Author Ripley is more interested in relating good, tall, cow-country tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Texas Killer | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...have qualified as first or second class pistolmen, are practicing the record course at the range, in preparation for the meet. The team will be chosen as a result of the showing made in record firing, and in this practice shooting. The course of fire for record and for matches consist of two scores of five shots each at twenty-five yards, each score to be completed in twenty seconds; two scores on bobbing targets, visible for three seconds for each shot at fifteen yards, and two scores on these at twenty-five yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HOLD PISTON MATCH | 4/30/1921 | See Source »

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