Free Rifle

Free rifle is the former name of four ISSF shooting events:

  • 300 metre rifle three positions
  • 300 metre rifle prone
  • 50 metre rifle three positions (for men; the female version was called standard rifle and then sport rifle)
  • 50 metre rifle prone (for men; the female version was called standard rifle and then sport rifle)

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or rifle:

    “We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons.... If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair.... We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”
    —Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)

    “At Hayes’ General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. The grocer took the rifle as payment ‘on account.’”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)