Shooting Sports Vocabulary

noun a small portable gun, such as a pistol or rifle

• The suspect was found in possession of a loaded firearm.
• I heard that he carries a firearm for protection.
• He's always packing heat, you never know when he'll pull out his firearm.
• Her words were like a loaded firearm, ready to cause damage.

noun a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, having a long barrel and spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory

verb to search quickly through something in order to find or steal something

• The soldier carefully aimed his rifle at the target.
• Dad took out his rifle to go hunting this weekend.
• I heard he's packing a serious rifle for the competition.
• Her sharp wit was like a verbal rifle, always hitting the mark.

noun a type of hunting where game birds are flushed out by beaters towards waiting guns

• Driven shooting is a traditional method of hunting where beaters drive game birds towards waiting guns.
• Have you ever tried driven shooting? It's quite an exhilarating experience.
• I heard the driven shooting event last weekend was lit!
• In the corporate world, the CEO's ambitious goals act as the driving force in a 'driven shooting' strategy to achieve success.