walk one's shots

English

Verb

walk one's shots (third-person singular simple present walks one's shots, present participle walking one's shots, simple past and past participle walked one's shots)

1. (military) To repeatedly observe the fall of shot of one's weapon and use this data to adjust one's aim until one hits one's target.
   • 2019 July 17, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2023:

     "I analyzed their firing patterns when they were walking their shots across the Milky Way. They only hit annie plants whose precise positions could be predicted at least twenty seconds in advance."