Shooting iron

"It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron."

Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.

"Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand."

The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.