air rifle

A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has ...

rifle

Sports; Baseball

A very strong arm. A cannon, a bazooka, a gun. Also used as a verb, "He rifled the ball home to catch the runner." A batter can also be said to rifle a ball when he hits a hard ...

air

Pollution control; Air pollution

So called "pure" air is a mixture of gases containing about 78 percent nitrogen; 21 percent oxygen; less than 1 percent of carbon dioxide, argon, and other gases; and varying ...

sharp-shooter

Sports; Shooting

A person who is skilled in precision, or shooting, using projectile weapons, such as with a rifle but most commonly with a sniper rifle, to shoot at long range targets.

ready position

Sports; Shooting

In skeet shooting the shooter keeps his weapon at is side until the target appears and then moves the weapon to their shoulder to shot the target. In trap shooting the weapon is ...

regular target

Sports; Shooting

An unbroken pigeon or clay target.

rim-fire

Sports; Shooting

This is a cartridge that has the explosive that ignites the powder inside the rim of the case.

running target

Sports; Shooting

This is a target, which is on a mechanical track and it is moved along this track to imitate a moving animal or some other type of target.

scope

Sports; Shooting

A device the shooter can look through that magnifies the target they are shooting at.

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Pablo Eisler Sandoval

A Venezuelan professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. In the first game of 2012 World Series, Sandoval hit ...