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The Shooting Party is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate.The film is set in 1913, less than a year before the beginning of the First World War, and shows a vanishing way of life amongst English aristocrats, focusing on a shooting party gathered for pheasant shooting.
The Shooting Party is the ninth novel by Isabel Colegate, published in 1980, [1] which won the 1981 WH Smith Literary Award. It was adapted into the 1985 film The Shooting Party . It was published as part of the Penguin Books Modern Classic series.
The Shooting Party was originally published in Russia in serial form in a total of thirty-two segments. [5] It was later published in its entirety in an English translation (completed by A.E. Chamot) by London publisher Stanley Paul in 1926. [5] In 2004, the novel was republished by Penguin Books with a new translation by Ronald Wilks. [6]
Post-war the Association showed little interest in redeveloping it. This gap was filled by the emergence of the Air Rifle Clubs Association (ARCA) in the 1960s. This led to a split where the NSRA was the recognised authority for international small-bore and airgun shooting despite ARCA being the de facto domestic authority on airgun shooting.
A para-athlete competing with a match air rifle A collection of lever-action, spring-piston air rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.
A Hunting Accident (Russian: Мой ласковый и нежный зверь, romanized: Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver, lit. 'My Sweet and Tender Beast') is a 1978 Soviet romantic drama directed by Emil Loteanu.
Feinwerkbau / ˈ f aɪ n w ɜːr k b aʊ /, often abbreviated FWB, is a German manufacturer of firearms and air guns aimed mainly at competitive ISSF shooting events, including some contested at the Olympic Games as governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).