Stanton says that anybody can get up a better sight, and now the Navy Department is allowing officers to make improvements on the guns they are going to fire at target practice.
Even when shooting in other directions, we were carefully warned not to fire rapidly, but to shoot slowly and deliberately, as at target practice.
The following schedule shows the general target practice scheme of each course, a score in all cases consisting of five consecutive shots.
Target practice is required in all the branches of the military and naval service of the United States.
A very excellent and complete program for target practice is contemplated.
C xxiv-xxvi Questions to be embraced in Reports of Target Practice No.
B xxii Directions as to preparing Reports of Target Practice No.
The proper care of the bore requires conscientious, careful work, but it pays well in reduced labor of cleaning and in prolonged accuracy life of the rifle, and better results in target practice.
When the time comes for the target practice of the great guns no red paint is needed to mark the hits.
The ordnance officer has charge of the guns, ammunition, the work of target practice, the making of targets and everything that pertains to shooting.
Their drill at the guns becomes the preparation for the great sport of target practice, which beats any big-game shooting when guns compete with guns, with battle practice greater sport than target practice.
As the result appears in sub-calibre practice, so it is practically bound to appear in target practice; as it appears in target practice, so it is bound to appear in battle practice.
Yes--just as well and better than at target practice; for the target was larger and solid.
Surely the gun crews of the destroyer were not at target practice.
We fellows going out to target practice, while those battleships already on the other side of this periscope pond may be fighting the Fritzies off Heligoland.
But the exact team work of the crew had much to do with the score of the gun in target practice; and the two friends did their work commendably.
Our three young cadets were marched nearly two miles for instruction in target practice.
Infantry tactics, with unceasing drill and a lot of target practice, provide a great amount of work.
He is to be used as a target for the plebe squads in target practice.
Out on the range, at target practice, two mornings later, Dick did some especially bad shooting.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "target practice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
