Meanings of waste a shot in English

We didn't waste a shot in reply, but ranged up alongside, one on each beam.

You are nothing to me but a gun-carriage, and I shall not waste a shot.'

I would have shot it, but reflected that I must not waste a shot on wolves.

On Hazelton he did not waste a shot.

Don't let the men waste a shot.

Don't waste a shot on the blacks.

For heaven's sake don't waste a shot.

Don't waste a shot.

From the black depths of the coach the three men watched in almost breathless silence, gripping their weapons, fascinated, determined not to waste a shot.

We ought not to waste a shot; and if they lose ten men, I should think they will give up the attack on the door.

They never wasted a shot.

You have wasted a shot!

"Only thirty of them; but I believe they did not waste a shot," replied Deck.

The hunters were very accurate marksmen; game was plenty, and not shy, and so they got up close and rarely wasted a shot.

"Don't waste a shot, men," says Willis; "we're not goin' to have another chance like that.

But he worked away steadily at his post, always taking care not to expose himself, yet never wasting a shot with a bad aim.