enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Wingo (shooting) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingo_(shooting)

   Wingo was an experimental indoor wing shooting sport invented by the Winchester-Western Division of the Olin Corporation in the early 1970s. [1] [2] The only Wingo facility built was in San Diego, California and was in operation during 1971. [3] It was a family friendly sport enjoyed by men, women and children. Competing teams were organized ...

3. Pigeon-shooting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon-shooting

   Pigeon shooting is a type of live bird wing shooting competition. Traditionally, there are two types of competition: box birds and columbaire. In box birds, the pigeons are held in a mechanical device that releases them when the shooter calls out.

4. MidwayUSA - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidwayUSA

   MidwayUSA (formerly Ely Arms, Inc.) was a small start-up gun shop in Columbia, Missouri that opened on June 18, 1977. The business was opened by Larry Potterfield, with his next younger brother Jerry, in a 151 square metres (1,630 sq ft) metal, pole-frame building.

5. Colin Falkland Gray - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Falkland_Gray

   That day, several Bf 109s ambushed the wing but Gray was able to shoot down one of the attacking fighters. No. 322 Wing moved to Lentini, on Sicily, towards the end of July. [36] On 25 July 1943, he led 33 Spitfires of No. 322 Wing on a sweep to try and intercept Luftwaffe attempts to land supplies to the German ground forces near Milazzo.

6. Snipe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe

   If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty wing-shooting due to the bird's erratic flight pattern. The difficulties involved around hunting snipes gave rise to the military term sniper , which originally meant an expert hunter highly skilled in marksmanship and camouflaging , but later evolved to mean a sharpshooter or a shooter who makes ...

7. 23rd Wing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd_Wing

   The 23rd Fighter Wing was reassigned to Howard Air Force Base, Panama Canal Zone, in April 1949, where it also acquired a squadron of Lockheed RF-80 Shooting Stars. The 23rd Fighter Wing conducted air defense of the Canal Zone under the Caribbean Air Command until it was again inactivated on 24 September 1949.