sharpshooting

Etymology

 * see.

Noun

 * 1) Highly accurate marksmanship.
 * Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
 * 1) * 1856, credited to Edward O. C. Ord., Soldiering in Oregon
 * Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day