rifleman

noun3

1. •
   A soldier trained to use a rifle as a primary weapon.

   • The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.
2. •
   A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.

   • She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.
3. •
   A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.