Herd animals, once driven to the edge of extinction by high-velocity rifles, grew in numbers; birds and fish multiplied.

The only choice lay between firing a high-velocity rifle which, if aimed accurately, was almost certain to kill or injure, and doing nothing at all.

Some bullets from a high-velocity rifle went through the atrium skylight.

Even modern high-velocity naval rifles would have problems with it.

Coastal forts were designed to shoot it out with high-velocity naval rifles, weapons with flat trajectories.

Brennan had one of the high-velocity rifles.

We have a right to a safe polar ice-cap when we remember to load and carry our high-velocity rifle.

On previous occasions I had always been accompanied by a guide armed with a high-velocity rifle.

Then the crack of a high-velocity rifle howled around the Platz, scooping up the pigeons, scattering them like grey litter across the square.

They are bullet injuries from high-velocity rifles.