50 metre rifle (formerly called free rifle for men, standard rifle and sport rifle for women) is the name of two ISSF shooting events:
- 50 metre rifle three positions
- 50 metre rifle prone
Famous quotes containing the word rifle:
“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)