300 metre army rifle is a discontinued ISSF shooting event, that was part of the ISSF World Shooting Championships programme between 1911 and 1962. All competitors were required to shoot this event with the army rifle of the host country.
Famous quotes containing the words army and/or rifle:
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)