The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MUSKETRY
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More clues leading to the result MUSKETRY
- Shooting a thousand wild turkeys
- Old soldiers have to track round half of Kent
- Smell shot, catching echo of old-fashioned gunfire
- Guns shot tusker in the outskirts of Mandalay
- The Guardian finally kick the bucket: editor held in compiler’s arms
- Think about knight with endeavour getting old weapons
- Shooting deer, shot holding end of rifle
- Skill at shooting deer, perhaps with extremely negligible effort
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The straight part
We know that "old weapons" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case old weapons = musketry.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does MUSKETRY mean?
MUSKETRY noun- The technique of using small arms such as muskets.
- A collection of muskets or musketeers.
- Musket fire.