The shooter stands some yards behind the pit, gun in hand, waiting for the appearance of the object.
Even then it is not easy for some of us to forget that many a bird must have been miserably maimed before the shooter perfected his skill.
I seed Jeff knock a squirrel out of a high tree with his six-shooter that three men had missed with rifles.
I stood and didn't do anything until he went by, and then I happened to think I had left my nigger-shooter on my bureau in my room and I went to get it.
So I grabbed my nigger-shooter off the bureau and was going to go mighty quick, because mothers always think of something for you to do when they see you.
I bet him my clay pipe against a nigger-shooter rubber he had.
What's worryin' me more is that cuff-shooter who butted in over there on the Island.
And have a cuff-shooter running for help over such a triviality?
Get your six-shooter an' a rifle, an' come on over to the office.
In his lap lay his six-shooter ready for any emergency.
Billy turned his head in the direction from which the shot had come and saw Eddie Shorter running toward him, a smoking six-shooter in his right hand.
His six-shooter was thirty-five yards away lying on the grass.
Hondo twirled his six-shooter by its trigger guard and stood towering above the little German, who at once began to read the letter, translating the simple words into English.
A gun-scabbard will make that sound when one grasps the handle of a six-shooter suddenly.
Once when he was sober he said he bought me for an old six-shooter and six bits from a band of drunken Mexican sheep-shearers.
A six-shooter won't do you anymore good than a pea-shooter with those shaggy fellows.
His partner sprang almost instantly into a sitting posture, and his hand went to a six-shooter that he had bolstered at his hip.
He had stopped at a distance, however, for Chet had loosened the six-shooter in his belt and the man respected the hint.
Chet had been riding with the six-shooter loosened in its case while his eyes roved all about them as the horses walked.
Chet's work with the six-shooter was the result of long practice and a certain aptitude that the boy had originally possessed.
Jest select that thar six-shooter by the end of the bar'l and hurl her from you some," advised the sheriff.
As though at the signal the night split with the roar of buckshot, and splintered with the answering crackle of a six-shooter three times repeated.
No scorer is allowed to have at one time more than one score-card for each shooter, and no shooter is allowed to shoot without having an unfinished score-card deposited with the scorer.
It shall be the right of the shooter to challenge the scoring, and the executive officer may decide upon the evidence the actual value of the shot.
This additional height depresses the muzzle of the barrel, and counteracts the flip or kick-up, and the shooter can sight directly at the bull's-eye at a distance of 50 yards.
If, however, the shooter desires to use a light charge of ten to fifteen grains of powder, he will find this sight approximately correct in regard to height.
Any shooter firing upon the wrong target shall be recorded a miss.
He laughed into the very muzzle of the six-shooter that covered him.
For he was looking squarely into the rim of a six-shooter less than a foot from his forehead.
Skag took merely a haversack, a canteen, light blanket and a hunting belt, carrying a knife and a six-shooter but no rifle.
My six-shooter and holster were full of yellow mud the same as my Winchester, and it took me an hour to clean my guns and get that yellow mud off my hat and clothes.
I pulled my Winchester out of the saddle scabbard and throwing a shell in the barrel, I told King to pull his six-shooter and cut the Injun's rope that was on his hoss's neck.
Disgusted with him, I laid down again, thinking I would blow out the light, but be ready with my six-shooter and some matches and catch whoever it was prowling around that house, trying to hoodoo the place.
The shooter was required to hold the butt of the gun at the hip until the bird was on the wing.
The rules required that the butt of the gun should be clear below the elbow when the shooter called "pull.
As the race was being run and every eye was centred on the outcome, a stranger present put a six-shooter to a very interested spectator's ear, and informed him that he was a prisoner.
Good resolutions of an hour's existence were converted into paving material in the excitement of the moment, as every carbine or six-shooter in or out of range rained its leaden hail at the flying covey.
Quick as a flash Mouse prodded the cold steel muzzle of a six-shooter against his ear.
This is sufficient authority for you," said the sheriff, flashing a six-shooter in young Gray's face.
They had been given one hundred rounds of six-shooter ammunition to the man and were expected to use it.
No one was hit, but the sleeping man jumped to his feet with a six-shooter in each hand.
I didn't know it at the time, but my six-shooter had fallen out of the holster, while the horse was lying on my carbine.
He could resight a gun, shoe a horse, or empty a six-shooter into a tree from the back of a running horse with admirable accuracy.
In reply a six-shooter was thrown in the major's face, when a number of us rushed in on our horses and the pistol was struck from the man's hand.
The remuda was running at the time, and as we cut through between it and the savages we gave them the benefit of our rifles and six-shooter in passing.
His act, a disgusting one, was anticipated, as it was not the first time it had been witnessed, when one of the Texans present drew a six-shooter and killed the chief in the act.
I wrested a six-shooter from the hand of my acquaintance and hustled him out of the house, getting roundly cursed for my interference, though no doubt I saved human life.
Like a flash of light, LaFlors aimed a six-shooter at the officer's breast, and was instantly covered by a dozen carbines in the hands of troopers.
There was a six-shooter lying on the seat beside me, and reaching forward I fired it downward over the end gate of the wagon.
Once I leveled my rifle at a shadow, but hesitated, when a flash from a six-shooter revealed the object to be one of our own men.
We had a few carbines, every lad had a six-shooter or two, and, summoning every mounted man, we rode up to the ford.
In his hand he carried a Winchester rifle, and the inevitable six-shooter peeped forth from his hip-pocket.
Glenister laid his six-shooter upon the safe and slipped off his own wet garment.
And I'll tell you another thing; when the time comes you'll look jest as big over the top of a six-shooter as I do, and stand only half the chanst to git hit.
Grabbing up his six-shooter he stood like a prophet of destruction calling down the wrath of God Himself, if there was a God, upon the head of every sheepman.
He lay sprawling, his legs turned under him, and the hand that grasped the six-shooter relaxed slowly and tumbled it into the dust.
For a minute he stood there, thinking ponderously; then very deliberately he pulled his six-shooter out of his shaps and handed it over to her.
The time may come when guns is necessary, but I move that every man leave his six-shooter in his bed and we'll go after 'em with our bare hands.
He kicked off his boots, poked his six-shooter under his pillow, and settled down comfortably for the night.
I talked kindly to him, but was firm in my demand that the men who killed the woman must be given up and my six-shooter returned.
If in such a case a fine is imposed, it shall be equally divided between the shooter and the person who ordered the shooting.
But he did it, with his six-shooter inside his shirt and the extra ammunition weighting his trousers pockets.
He did not know who was making Indian war on peaceful prospectors, but Casey felt that they were already as good as licked, since he was here with breakfast under his belt and his six-shooter tucked handily inside his waistband.
In spite of Joe's six-shooter laid handily upon the table beside his plate, Casey ate heartily, though the food was neither well cooked nor over plentiful.
Casey drove as "purty" as was possible with a six-shooter pressed irritatingly against his lowest floating rib; but he did not dwell upon the spectacle of himself found dead with a carload of booze.
The muzzle of a six-shooter has a quieting effect, when applied to the person by an unfriendly hand.
Worst and most persistent of his discomforts was the hard pressure of that six-shooter against his side.
He was aware of Joe's suspicious gaze from the lower bunk, and of the close presence of Joe's six-shooter eyeing him balefully from underneath the top blanket.
He filled a canteen, emptied a box of cartridges into his pocket, stuck his old, Colt six-shooter inside his trousers belt, and gave Barney some parting instruction under his breath.
In addition to all this, the quail shooter has on his excursions a companion, who not only promotes his success, but whose manner of contributing to it is a constant source of delight.
He is thus forced to learn that hunting-dog intelligence is not limited to abject subservience; and he thus gains a new appreciation of the fact that the better his dog, the better the shooter must know "what to do with his gun.
In this delightful assemblage of serene duck hunters there is no place for envious feeling toward either the slaughtering market shooteror the insatiable dead shot.
An old quail shooter once advised a younger one afflicted with this sort of quick triggeritis: "When the bird gets up, if you chew tobacco spit over your shoulder before you shoot.
After some time another shooter arrived behind two white oxen, taking both sides of the road in a sort of big governess cart.
My five shooter is quite a novelty here, so I had to take it to bits and show how it worked, or rather, I began to show how it worked, did something wrong, and had to take it all to bits on this inauspicious occasion.
Fortunately the knife was knocked from Tolleston's hand and his six-shooter secured, rendering him powerless to inflict injury to any one.
When that happens, I want to be in an unorganized country where a six-shooter is the highest authority.
Tolleston had wheeled his horse, joining the retreat, and as I brought my six-shooter into action and was in the act of leveling on him, he reeled from the saddle, but clung to the neck of his mount as the animal dashed into the water.
The familiar bark of the six-shooter was a matter of almost nightly occurrence; a dispute at the gaming table, a discourteous word spoken, or the rivalry for the smile of a wanton was provocation for the sacrifice of human life.
