page_title: Shooting
section_title: Hunting with guns
hierarchical_section_title: Shooting / Hunting with guns
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan (my me, R. de SalisRodolph (talk) 00:38, 27 May 2014 (UTC)) of 1866 engraving by Edward H. Hacker (1813-1905), after Abraham Cooper, RA, (1787–1868), print of shooting scene, UK.
context_page_description: Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon. Even the acts of launching/discharging artillery, arrows, darts, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion process.
  Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting or in combat. The person involved in the shooting activity is called a shooter. A skilled, accurate shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter, and a person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as their marksmanship.
context_section_description: In the United Kingdom shooting often refers to the activity of hunting game birds such as grouse or pheasants, or small game such as rabbits, with guns.  A shooter is sometimes referred to as a "gun".  Shooting may also refer to the culling of vermin with guns. Clay pigeon shooting is meant to simulate shooting live pigeons released from traps, after doing so was banned in the United Kingdom in 1921.
caption: Edward Hacker (1813–1905), after Abraham Cooper, RA, (1787–1868), print of shooting, UK.
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