Snap shot

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A snap shot is a shot that is aimed and fired very quickly at a target that appears suddenly and for a very short period of time.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "snapshot" was first used in 1808 by an English sportsman by the name of Sir Henry Hawker. He noted in his diary that almost every bird he shot that day was taken by snapshot, meaning a hurried shot, taken without deliberate aim. Snapshot then was originally a hunting term.

In paintball, snapshooting is the rapid and sporadically repeated firing at a target from behind a bunker.