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A Marksman Extraordinary
In the Hungarian capital of Budapest, there lived a young man who was very fond of marksmanship. His name was Karoly Takacs. He had defeated some of the best marksmen of his country in various shooting competitions in Hungary.
He received praise throught the length and breadth of the country for the accuracy with which he used to fire and hit targets. Everyone would say that the country had not produced any other marksman with the expertise that Karoly possessed. But Karoly was not content with the shower of praise that was bestowed upon him by his countrymen. He wanted to become the best marksman of the world and to achieve that unique status, he thought, and rightly so, that it was relatively easy to be the best in the country, but not so when you face superior marksmen from all over the world. Kalory Takacs had acquired an expertise in rapid fire pistol shooting more than in any other types. Taking the world as a whole, countries like Argentina, Switzerland and Rumania did have a large number of experts who could match the expertise of Karoly in rapid fire shooting and might even be superior to him.
Karoly was bestowed with enthusiasm, tenacity and resoluteness. He started undergoing hard training with a view to achieving his ambition. He would practice continuously for long hours. He would not spare any efforts to achieve
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