Civilian shooters use these for long-distance target shooting.

Individually, Griffith transformed his offensive game, adding long-distance shooting skills to his aerial acrobatics.

His passing ability and accurate long-distance shooting saw him become one of the driving forces of Chelsea's resurgence in the late 1990s.

This allows for combos like stunning a shielded enemy at long-distance with the Glaive, then shooting him while unprotected.

Karen is the crew's expert in long-distance shooting.

It is not, however, the best choice for deliberately-aimed, long-distance shooting — the double action pull will throw the most competent shooter's aim off enough to noticeably affect accuracy at ranges of more than or so.

The NSW Department of Primary Industries believe shooting is the preferred method of population control as it does not subject the horses to the stresses of mustering, yarding, and long-distance transportation, all of which are related to ' capture and removal ' methods.

* August 5 – Berta Benz arrives in Pforzheim, having driven from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first " long-distance " drive in the history of the automobile.

Only the Brantas and Sala rivers could provide long-distance communication, and thus their valleys supported the centres of major kingdoms.

The Ghaziabad-Saharanpur line passes through the city thus forming the backbone of the long-distance and best possible travel from the city.

Some might thus even have been migratory, but given the markedly warmer climate of the Mesozoic and the fact that the known Enantiornithes are from regions that were subtropical if not tropical at that time, it seems unlikely that the known diversity of these birds contains long-distance migrants.

At that distant time, long-distance calling was performed by manual patching in the route of the call by a series of long-distance operators ; connecting a coast-to-coast call this way thus took up to 23 minutes.

Listeners hear a single effect — breathy voiced vowels — and attribute it to one rather than both of the consonants, assuming the breathiness on the other syllable to be a long-distance coarticulatory effect, thus replicating the historical change in the Greek word.

As such he developed the concept of the head race, a long-distance race against the clock to mark the end of winter training, thus encouraging crews to train over longer distances.

A fraction of a second later, a powerful electric current is sent down this plasma channel and delivered to the target, thus functioning overall as a large-scale, high energy, long-distance version of the Taser electroshock gun.

While the pipeline was considered groundbreaking and innovative at the time it was built, were it still operational to this day it would be considered somewhat outdated — nowadays, most modern long-distance pipelines constructed beginning in the second half of the twentieth century have been built to a diameter of 42 " or 48 " and thus able to transport considerably more crude oil per day than Tapline did in its heyday.

Over the years, Ethiopia and Kenya have produced many notable long-distance athletes.

A 150 mm Tele-Xenar was available for long-distance action photography, but it produced a vignetted circular image on the 24 × 24 mm frame.

In 1981 a variant of the DFV named the DFL ( for long-distance ) was produced specifically for use in the new Group C ( and later C2 ) sports car racing categories.

In marine environments this may be less evident than on land because there are fewer topographical boundaries, however, discontinuities still exist, produced for example by mesoscale and sub-mesoscale circulations that minimize long-distance dispersal of fish larvae.

In addition, long-distance trade flourished, reaching as far north as Cornwall where tin was exchanged for Roman wheat.

While long-distance travel was unusual in Pictish times, it was far from unknown as stories of missionaries, travelling clerics and exiles show.

Telegraph ( from Greek: tele τηλε " far ", and graphein γραφειν " writing ") is the long-distance transmission of messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

Actual analysis of shipping losses in World War I disproved all these arguments, at least so far as they applied to transatlantic and other long-distance traffic.

To boost its circulation, L ' Auto launched the Tour de France, a new long-distance bicycle race with distances and prizes far exceeding any previous race.

On the question of Máel Coluim's putative pilgrimage, pilgrimages to Rome, or other long-distance journeys, were far from unusual.

Juveniles and immature individuals may migrate far or embark on long-distance movements.

Of course, in the Southern Hemisphere the directions are reversed, but there is less land area in the far South to support long-distance migration.

The White Stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent.

Malamutes are generally slower in long-distance dogsled racing against smaller and faster breeds and their working usefulness is limited to freighting or traveling over long distances at a far slower rate than that required for racing.

The first electricity was generated on September 4, 1964, with the power sent into the regional electric grid through a pair of long-distance transmission lines as far as Phoenix, Arizona and Farmington, New Mexico.

Toll-free numbers are also sometimes confused with 900-numbers, for which the telephone company bills the callers at rates far in excess of long-distance service rates for services such as recorded information or live chat.

The two systems complemented each other: Freya was a long-distance radar system, but lacked precision, whereas Würzburg possessed a far shorter range but was far more precise.

These outcasts brought up-to-date naval expertise to the piracy business, and enabled the corsairs to make long-distance slave-catching raids as far away as Iceland and Newfoundland.

There, he theorizes that, fueled by a burgeoning demand for walrus ivory in continental Europe extending as far as Rome and wealthy Slavic lands, they developed a seagoing culture that used sophisticated long-distance fishing crafts with hulls made of hide.

It is also used by long-distance buses / coaches, however the " ZOB ", Berlin's central intercity bus terminal, is located on Messedamm in Westend, not far from the Funkturm.

Particularly in the 13th and 14th centuries, Brakel developed itself by fostering long-distance trade activities as far away as the Baltic Sea coast.

The P40DC and P42DC allowed Amtrak to operate heavy long-distance trains with fewer locomotives compared to the older EMD F40PH locomotives.

These InterRegio services also have fewer stops than the InterCity services, which goes against the original InterRegio concept of long-distance trains with more local stops.

The access points ( AP ) are built in long-distance telephone exchanges ( LDTEs ), Russian fixed-line communication infrastructure which is present in every province.

Road running courses over 5 km usually offer drinks or refreshment stations for runners at designated points alongside the course and medical professionals are present at the courses of major races due to the health risks involved with long-distance running.

He paid long-distance truckers to place advertising signs at strategic points across the United States.

The development of the motorway network, the advent of containerisation, improvements in road haulage vehicles, and the economic costs of having two break-of-bulk points all combined to make long-distance road transport a more viable alternative.

Many more Danray switches were purchased and deployed at strategic points of their service area to become the first viable competitor to AT & T's long-distance voice services for businesses.

By the mid-1880s, dedicated dining cars were a normal part of long-distance trains from Chicago to points west, save those of the Santa Fe Raiilway, which relied on America's first interstate network of restaurants to feed passengers en route.

One path to the reciprocal lattice of an arbitrary collection of atoms comes from the idea of scattered waves in the Fraunhofer ( long-distance or lens back-focal-plane ) limit as a Huygens-style sum of amplitudes from all points of scattering ( in this case from each individual atom ).

There are several daily local bus connections to Oulu, and several long-distance connections to Kajaani and points east.

Some long-distance buses between Nizny Novgorod and points east ( Lyskovo, Cheboksary, etc.