what is plinking
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Plinking Metal target used for plinking. Plinking refers to informal target shooting done for pleasure typically at non-standard targets such as tin cans, logs, soda bottles, or any other homemade or naturally occurring target. A person involving in the plinking exercise is colloquially known as a plinkster.
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Croquet Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (often called wickets in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
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poaching The illegal shooting, trapping, or taking of game or fish from private or public property. The poaching of game and fish was made a crime in England in the seventeenth century, as aristocratic landowners sought to preserve their shooting and property rights.Poor peasants did most of the poaching to supplement their diets with meat and fish.are and endangered species, which are protected by state and federal law, are often the targets of poachers. Poaching laws are enforced by game wardens, who patrol state and national parks and respond to violations on private property. Poachers are subject to criminal laws, ranging from misdemeanors to felonies.
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espionage Espionage (colloquially, spying) is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government or a company, or operating independently. The practice is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law.
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bombardment bombardment - the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) radiation - the act of spreading outward from a central source.
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- plunk (plŭngk) also plonk (plŏngk, plŭngk) v. plunked, plunk·ing, plunks also plonked or plonk·ing or plonks v.tr. 1. To throw or place heavily or abruptly: plunked the money down on the counter. 2. To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument). v.intr.
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Shot peening Shot peening is a cold working process used to produce a compressive residual stress layer and modify mechanical properties of metals and composites. It entails impacting a surface with shot with force sufficient to create plastic deformation. In machining, shot peening is used to strengthen and relieve stress in components like steel automobile crankshafts and connecting rods. In architecture it provides a muted finish to metal. Shot peening is similar to sandblasting, except that it operates b
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What Is Foraging? Foraging most commonly refers to going mushroom hunting, something only people practiced in the fine and delicate art of mushroom identification should engage in. Yet there are many edible plants that grow wild all around us—the trick, as with mushrooms, is knowing when and where to look:
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A Glossary of Government Surveillance PRISM is an electronic surveillance data mining program operated by the United States National Security Agency under Section 702 of the PATRIOT Act. PRISM commenced operation under the supervision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court after the passage of the Protect America Act in 2007.
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Still Hunting, Stalking, and Glassing Spotting game at a distance from a vantage point or position stalking The process of spotting and then carefully approaching game still hunting A method of moving slowly through the woods and pastures or along trails, hillsides, and mountain slopes from cover to cover
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Larceny Law In the United States, larceny is a common law crime involving theft. Under the common law, larceny is the trespassory taking (caption) and carrying away (asportation, removal) of the tangible personal property of another with the intent to deprive him or her of its possession permanently. In almost all states, it has become a statutory crime through codification.
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What is larceny? Larceny is a specific intent crime, meaning that it requires the accused to have the criminal intent to steal or deprive the owner of the property for a lengthy period of time. Generally, this intent must exist at the time of the taking, though in certain situations, it can arise later.
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What is shot peening? Shot peening is a metal working process which enhances the surfaces of a variety of different materials. Various manufacturing processes used throughout the aerospace, aircraft, automotive, energy, and heavy equipment industries can produce tensile stresses on the surface of components.
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firearm scattergun, shotgun-firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges. sights-an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument. smoothbore-a firearm that has no rifling. .22, twenty-two-a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle).irearm. noun gun, weapon, handgun, revolver, shooter (slang), piece (slang), rod (slang), pistol, heater (U.S. slang) He was charged with possession of illegal firearms.
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What Is Badminton? Badminton is a sport that involves the volleying of a shuttlecock over a net with the use of rackets. Badminton is an aerobic sport that can be played for pleasure or for competition. Continue Reading.
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Learn What Poaching Is Updated February 09, 2017. Poaching is the illegal taking of wildlife, in violation of local, state, federal or international law. Activities that are considered poaching include killing an animal out of season, without a license, with a prohibited weapon, or in a prohibited manner such as backlighting.
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Accurizing Accurizing is the process of improving the accuracy of a firearm or airgun. For firearms, accuracy is defined as the ability to hit exactly what one is aiming at. Further, accuracy and precision, or the ability to hit the same place over and over again in a repeatable fashion, are the goals of accurizing.ccurizing is the process of improving the accuracy of a firearm or airgun. For firearms, accuracy is defined as the ability to hit exactly what one is aiming at. Further, accuracy and precision, or the ability to hit the same place over and over again in a repeatable fashion, are the goals of accurizing.
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Pork-Barrel Spending, Earmarks and Logrolling Logrolling: Logrolling, or birling, is a sport that originated in the lumberjack tradition of the northeastern United States and Canada. It involves standing on a log that is floating in a river and spinning it with ones feet, either to cooperate with, or to try to throw off another competitor.
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- Culling, is a word meaning to remove certain undesirable animals from an ecosystem in order to acquire a more healthy population. This can be practiced while managing a pond o … r personal body of water. However, culling is most often used in fishing when referring to tournament fishing.ulling is used as a way to manage animal populations. If the populations in a confined area are left to their vices, they will have to fight and compete for lesser and lesser … food and water resources.
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- Ion Plating Ion plating is one of the most advanced surface finishing processes in the trade. In traditional processes, the gold coating on the surface of the case can be rubbed off easily.
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- Robbery is the taking or attempting to take something of value from another person by use of force, threats or intimidation. It is committed in the presence of the victim. Robbery is commonly known as a holdup or a stickup (i.e. bank robbery or mugging). Robbery is usually divided into different ‘degrees’.
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- Fishing. Fishing is the sport of catching a fish. This is done in various ways, by hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fishing can be recreational and industrial. Most recreational fishermen use a rod, hook and a line. As bait they use either bread or worms.
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Gleaning (birds) Gleaning is a term for a feeding strategy by birds in which they catch invertebrate prey, mainly arthropods, by plucking them from foliage or the ground, from crevices such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses, or even, as in the case of ticks and lice, from living animals.
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- A sniper is a marksman who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team, to maintain close visual contact with the enemy and shoot them from concealed positions or distances exceeding their detection capabilities.
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- Customs broking. Customs broking or customs brokerage is a profession that involves the clearing of goods through customs barriers for importers and exporters (usually businesses).
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What is larceny? Larceny is typically a nonviolent theft involving the wrongful taking and carrying away of someone else’s personal property. While the actions constituting larceny are illegal in all 50 states, the name of the specific criminal charges differs between states.