Word: shoot-off
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...October, the small Kentucky town of West Point hosted 12,000 visitors at the annual Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot. The competition, which is the nation’s largest, includes both a machine gun shoot-off and a separate competition for flame-throwers...
...level, Spain, and not just because the country claimed at least 13 gold medals, after winning only four in the past 96 years. The Chinese team was also a consistent surprise, and its women alone were everywhere one looked -- scoring all 10s in the uneven bars, winning an archery shoot-off with bull's-eye after bull's-eye after bull's-eye, even striding off with the 10-km walk. The Unified Team forgot its differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer the Dream Team, as their swimmers, boxers, spikers...
...Joan Pflueger of North Miami handled her 12-gauge gun with the ease of an old infantryman. From a 16-yd. handicap mark, blonde, self-contained Joan "smoked" (shattered to dust) 100 straight clay pigeons. That gave her a tie with four others. In a 75-bird shoot-off, Joan tightened up a bit: she missed one. The others missed more. Joan won by one shot from sharpshooting Texas Champion Dean Blank...
...trapshooters bettered his score of 99. Then a Pennsylvania truck farmer hit 96 birds in a row, missed the 97th, shattered the next three to tie Jimmy. Under a 97° sun, Farmer John W. Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize of about $3,500 (second prize: about $2,000). Said...
...Antonio's Charles H. Poulton, 41 : the national all-gauge skeet championship; outshooting 28-year-old Alex Kerr of California in a 175-bird shoot-off, after each had broken 250 straight in the regular event; at Indianapolis...