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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rifle range
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Once they found a herd, they sneaked up to within rifle range on foot.
▪ So, we pulled back and sat outside of rifle range and watched the gunships work over this small forest.
▪ The army use a large acreage in the northern sector of the Pentlands as a training area and rifle range.
▪ The Dragoons advanced to within rifle range and stopped to take aim.
▪ There is a rifle range and climbing tower.
▪ They watched the Dynmouth Hards performing at the rifle range, their black-frilled girls loitering beside them, seeming bored.
▪ When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh.
Wiktionary
rifle range

n. A shooting range for shooting rifles.

WordNet
rifle range
  1. n. the distance that a rifle bullet will carry; "the target was out of rifle range" [syn: rifle shot]

  2. a range where people can practice shooting rifles; "during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges"

Usage examples of "rifle range".

There's a rifle range over at the house, and we can practice some shooting, if you haven't anything else to do.

Rumor said some holdouts were still holed up in the ruins of the Swift plant, sniping at any Lizard dumb enough to show his snout inside rifle range.

From where they circled high above, if trying to stay out of rifle range most of the time, swooping occasionally, the pteridons or their riders had not yet seen Twenty-first Company.

To the east, he could see the dark mass that was the Lanachronan force, but the enemy horse had reined up, a good half vingt away, out of easy rifle range, and also waited.

They had to run the animal almost three miles to close within rifle range, and then it was a long rifle range.

No doubt Gus McCrae or Charles Goodnight, men renowned for the sharpness of their vision, would have seen the boy under the horse while still safely out of rifle range.

The six remaining Indians had retreated well beyond rifle range, but they weren't gone.

The train would chug on ahead, and slowly the cars would be hauled out of rifle range.

Again I urge you to repair to a location out of rifle range from that nest.

Yeager fired at the incoming autogiro, but it stayed out of rifle range.

It led northwards, back towards the higher ground and the rifle range, but he had no alternative but to follow it.

South of the town the Life Guards were deploying, just out of rifle range.

A flurry of orders from Tewfik's command post, just out of effective rifle range, and a block of about four hundred formed up and trotted north, giving his group a wide berth.

More manned the parapet, but the enemy were just beyond effective rifle range.