`` We got fired '', Jones said.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

Mike snatched a pistol from the heap of scattered booty and fired.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

He fired again, and somewhere in the gloom a man screamed.

`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

From her California headquarters, Miriam fired back, `` I shall never divorce Mr. Wright, to permit him to marry Olga Milanoff ''.

The maid then told her, `` Because he fired me ''.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

Eleven dummy rounds were fired by Lauchli in a demonstration of rapid-fire mortar shooting.

We knew the enemy was subdued, because a flare was fired as the signal.

He pulled out his pistol and fired it.

My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.

the next a headless horror on a horse that bolted through the redcoat ranks, and during the next second or two, we all of us fired into the suddenly disorganized column of soldiers.

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

After figuring out how to regulate the barrels so that they shot to the same point of impact, we fired this little 20-inch-barrel job on my home range and in Marlin's underground test gallery.

Dwellers thereabouts preferred to get their apple pies at the local bakery, which had a brick oven fired with redwood billets.

This will prevent the clay from twisting or bending, causing warping when fired.

Tiles were fired once to cone 05.

Bisque fired to cone 05.

Bisque fired to cone 05.

When dry they were fired to cone 06-05.

A bullet fired by one of the Mexicans hiding in a little chicken house had passed through his head, tearing a hole two-inches square on the outgoing side.

In the Prohibition Era, Hyman Lebman converted at least 5 Colt M1911s chambered in. 38 super and. 45 ACP to fire fully automatic, they were also fitted with Thompson submachine gun Model 1921 vertical grips on their dust covers, an extended barrel with muzzle brakes similar to the Thompson's, an extended 20 round magazine, and could only be fired on fully automatic.

As Whitman crouched with his back positioned toward the north wall in the northwest corner area of the observation deck and trained his sights in the direction of Day and Crum ( both of whom were obscured from Whitman's view behind of the tower ), Martinez jumped around the corner into the northeast area and rapidly fired all six rounds from his. 38 police revolver from a distance of approximately 50 feet at Whitman-all of which missed.

By war's end, 74, 441 depth charges had been issued by RN, and 16, 451 fired, scoring 38 kills in all, and aiding in 140 more.

This ammunition was intended to prolong the life of S & W M12 and Colt Aircrewman revolvers equipped with aluminum cylinders and frames, which were prone to stress fractures when fired with standard. 38 ammunition.

As with other. 38 Special rounds, the + P + loadings can also be fired safely in. 357 revolvers, since the pressure developed by. 38 Special + P + loadings are typically around 22, 000 psi, while. 357 Magnum loadings typically achieve up to 35, 000 psi.

Because the. 38 Special cartridge can be fired in. 357 Magnum firearms, the former is a popular option due to its reduced recoil, lower noise, and lower cost.

The palisade destroyed, the British troops rushed the pā whereupon Māori fired on them from hidden trenches, killing 38 and injuring many more in the most costly battle for the Pākehā of the New Zealand Wars.

* In 1960, three Smith professors, one who had been there for 38 years, were fired or " allowed to retire " for being gay.

Yallop drew this conclusion from an interview in March 1971 with Dr. David Haler, the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on Miles, who Yallop reports estimated the head wound was inflicted by a bullet of between. 32 and. 38 calibre fired from between six to nine feet away.

By mid-1940 Germany introduced the first HEAT round to be fired by a gun, the 7. 5 cm fired by the Kw. K. 37 L / 24 of the Panzer IV tank and the Stug III self propelled gun ( 7. 5 cm Gr. 38 Hl / A, later editions B and C ).

From the street behind them, Chapman fired five hollow point bullets from a. 38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back and left shoulder.

Like some other late-war German SPGs, the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) mounted a remote-control machine gun mount which could be fired from within the vehicle.

During the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943-the first time the mortar had been used in war-time-35, 000 rounds were fired in 38 days, of which more than 90 % were HE.

The battle resulted in the complete rout and disorganization of the enemy, and in achieving the result only seven battalions of Frederick's army had fired a shot-the rest had been the work of Seydlitz and his 38 squadrons.

Cooper contended that Monfort was " demonstrating the dangers of firearms, playing a form of Russian roulette with a. 38 caliber pistol " and had first spun the gun cylinder and shot at his own head, and when the gun didn't fire, pointed it at the victim, whereupon it fired.

According to the Israeli military, 38 shells were fired, two-thirds of them equipped with proximity fuses, an anti-personnel mechanism that causes the weapon to explode above the ground.

Following the checkout, the crew fired Columbias orbital maneuvering system engines for 38 seconds, dropping one side of the Shuttle's orbit by about to the lowest orbital altitude of any Shuttle flight to date.

Hathcock fired on Pusser with a concealed. 38 pistol.

* In 2012 four rounds of M982 Excalibur precision guided munitions were fired to a range of 38 km, all landing within 5 m of the target.

Moore was about 40 feet away from President Ford when she fired a single shot at him with a different firearm, a. 38 caliber revolver.

Anne Arundel County Police officers attempted to shoot out the tires of the aircraft in order to prevent it from taking off, but the. 38 caliber bullets fired from the Smith & Wesson revolvers issued to the officers at that time period failed to penetrate the tires of the aircraft and ricocheted off, some hitting the wing of the aircraft.

Although the FBI were reasonably sure that the body found in Staten Island was Napolitano, one discrepancy existed: Lino claimed that he and Filocomo shot Napolitano with. 38 caliber revolvers and that he himself had fired more than once.