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:

    “And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “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)