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Cowboy mounted shooting (also called western mounted shooting and mounted shooting) is a competitive equestrian sport involving the riding of a horse to negotiate a shooting pattern. Depending on sponsoring organizations, it can be based on the historical reenactment of historic shooting events held at Wild West shows in the late 19th century.
Bear Country USA is a drive-through wildlife park and zoo in the Black Hills near Rapid City, South Dakota. Founded in 1972, the park is noted for its bears, but also hosts other North American wildlife, such as wolves, elk, mountain lions, and buffalo.
Over the course of his life O'Connor shot among other animals brown bear, black bear, cougar, bighorn sheep, dall sheep, mountain goat, moose, wapiti, caribou, mule deer, coues whitetail deer and pronghorn in North America; lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, kudu, sable antelope, oryx and various other antelope in Africa; tiger, ibex ...
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Semi-automatic pistol Czechoslovakia: 1,000,000+ [134] Mauser C96 (and derivatives) Semi-automatic pistol Machine pistol German Empire: 1,000,000+ 920,000-984,000 C96, [135] 98,000 M712 'Schnellfeuer' [136] Tens of thousands of Spanish and Chinese copies [137] [138] Beretta Model 38: Submachine gun Italy: 1,000,000 Marlin Model 1894: Lever ...
A shooter, armed with a Remington Model 870 shotgun as her primary weapon and firing a Glock pistol as her sidearm. In many contemporary armies, the issue of a sidearm in the form of a service pistol is a clear sign of authority and is the mark of a commissioned officer or senior NCO.
The earliest kind of pistoleer was the mounted German Reiter, who came to prominence in Europe after the Battle of St. Quentin in 1557. These soldiers were equipped with a number of single-shot, muzzle-loader wheel-lock or Snaphance horse pistols, amongst the most advanced weapons of the era.