Perhaps someone would purchase it and donate it to ASSRA having collected these medals for the last forty or so years I would put a top price on this at 200.00 dollars. Philo Jacoby [picture] talks in his book THE RIFLE IN CALIFORNIA about the the schuetzen matches he attended from 1861 thru at least 1915 and refers to the temple of prizes being filled from floor to ceiling with goblets cups and medals.
Prizes were awarded for such things as first bull of the morning last of the morning first after lunch last of the day and on and on.
just look at his display in the photograph. while not a common medal this silver issue is far from rare or grand.

1895 festival given to every registered shooter worn on a ribbon to allow entry into the shooting hall

Hello and thanks to all bidders and all guys who wrote very interesting information to that item!  

Few days ago I didn't know what this medals was given for in the old days and now I got meanwhile so much information in the thread and via PM/email about the old schuetzen-associations in US and a lot of historical knowledge. Thanks a lot guys! 


The most important thing for me is: bringing back this medal to US. It should not be in a German medal-collection. It belongs to US and it should be there.

Me as a collector of old stuff round the Bavarian schuetzen-life in the old days is also happy, if someone offers me an item which belongs to my royal shooting society. The objects should be nowadays back there, for historical reasons. 

And if ASSRA is the follow-up organization of the old schuetzen-bunds in US, the medal goes to ASSRA. Fore sure! And I don't want to earn a real big money with that item, although if there were some higher bids than the price I sell it now to ASSRA. 

The associations don't have much money, but enough historical awareness to own that medal. So the missing money to the highest bidder is my donation in this case for bringing back that medal to US.


So the "forum-auction" stopped exactly now!

The medal goes for 301 US$ including free shipping to ASSRA. 

Sorry to the higher bidders who also wanted that item, but I want to donate the rest. I think that's a good decision.

Best regards from Bavaria!            Biggi.  

@ ASSRA: Please inform me via PM to which address I may send it.

Hi Ken.

This is a shooting award, the shooter got that prize for a certain amount of rings he shot with Kleinkaliber .22 at an annual regional match.

It's from Kitzbühel in Tyrol, Austria. In those years, Austria belonged to the German Reich. So the before very proud "Tyrolean Standschützen" (sport shooters who defended in WWI their home country in the Alps) had to shoot according to the rules of the Nazi-Schuetzenbund. Not anymore with Feuerstutzen on their old ranges, but rather on short distance (mostly 50 meters) with military small bore rifles in three position matches.

Especially the young shooters were forced by the Wehrmacht to take part in those regional matches in Austria. The badges were mostly awarded in 4 grades: bronze, silver, gold, and sometimes gold with oak-leaves. 

In each Austrian region of Tyrol and the neighbor-state Vorarlberg they held from 1941-1944 those regional matches with thousands of competitors which had to participate by law. 

Below a badge from Kufstein, the 1943's regional match.

         Biggi.  

While my researches I found an small article in the Austrian-German "People and Shooter's Newspaper" of 1866 about an "American Schuetzenbund". 

This seems to be an older Schuetzenbund in America, which was founded much earlier than this one we discussed according to the shown silver medal.

So you had much more Schuetzen associations in America in the old days?  This one celebrated his second Bundes-Schiessen already in 1866 in Chicago. See article below.

Does there somewhere exist an overview about all the American shooter's organizations and associations in the old days?

Best regards, Biggi.  

I am bumping this to the top.  I assume we still have not received enough pledges to get this done since we have not been told to send our money in yet.  So come on guys, lets do something nice for the organization rather than just bitch about it.

I did not know the ASSRA had a colection. Who maintains it and who has access to it? Or is this another Perk for the BOD?
Tom