Word: shotgunned
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...raccoon cage, and Saucer was on him, hugging him around the neck, clawing and biting at his shrieking face. Passing motorists stopped to watch the frightful scuffle which sent dead leaves flying in the autumn wind. But they did not get out of their cars. A neighbor with a shotgun was too late to do anything but kill Saucer, and Cup too. Little Grant Taylor was dead, mangled so badly that they did not let his parents...
...Drop that gun, Kelly," said Sergeant Raney shoving his shotgun into Kelly's stomach. Kelly dropped the pistol...
Still his friends helped him, but now there was a posse after him. Clint headed into the back hills and began to wonder if he would ever get away. When his adoring cousin Nance found his hideout, bringing him supplies and more shotgun shells, he was mighty grateful, but when she spent the night with him he knew there was no help for him now. Cornered with Nance in the old cave where his uncle's still had been, Clint made a last stand, had the supreme satisfaction of killing Ed Prather before they...
...nine other countries. Twenty-six state associations in the U. S. are governed by a National Skeet Shooting Association, Inc. which publishes a monthly Skeet Shooting News (circulation, 1,500) patterned vaguely after TIME. Many U. S. sporting magazines carry a skeet department. Enthusiasts estimate 18,000,000 shotgun shells burned at skeet last year. Twenty-six state and some 20 intersectional shoots culminate yearly in the Great Eastern States and National Telegraphic Championships staged by the Remington Gun Club at Lordship, Conn. This year for the first time skeeters in the Great Eastern States shoot competed...
Famed among skeet shooters are Louis D. Bolton of Detroit, who holds the world's long run record of 224 consecutive breaks (made with a 20-gauge gun) ; Ed Sransky of New Jersey, who broke the first straight 25 with a .410 bore (smallest) shotgun; the Waltham (Mass.) Gun Club, which holds the world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen...