I'm often asked, how we score our targets and bull's eyes in Bavaria. This is completely different to your American matches. So I want to explain it. Hope you'll understand it...
At our feuerstutzen-matches, we have series with five shots on a ten-ring-target. So the shooter may get 50 rings on one target. We don't count all shot targets together (except the Bavarian championships). We observe each single target.
The shooter can buy as much targets he wants. Okay, some rankings are limited, there one can buy only a certain number of targets. But normally one can buy targets and targets as far he has pocket-money and ammo.
If the shooter Müller Max bought six targets and hit series like: 48-45-44-44-43-42 he will be near the top of the ranking. The first view is on the best serie, the second view on the second serie. In a ranking it would look like that:
(1) Schmid Tom 48-47-40-38-31-29
(2) Müller Max 48-45-44-44-43-42
(3) Huber Sepp 47-45-44-44-42-41
(4) Lange Hans 45-45-45-45-41-40 In this sample you can see, that Müller Max would have the better six targets in total (summation of all six targets), but the first in the ranking "Schmid Tom" has the better second serie. So he got the first position, even though his total rings are worse. But he made two very good 5-shot-series!
And we have also a view on the bull's eyes. We do not count the quantity of bulls, we look to the quality! The shooter who's impact is closest to death center of the bull-papercard will win the bull's eye ranking.
On our black targets, we have on the "10" a colored papercard sticked on with glue. So we can release it later in the scoring-office and measure how far (in millimeters) the impact is away from the total center of the papercard-bull.
And so we get another ranking (aside the ring ranking) with quality of bull's eyes. This is a typical scoring in Bavaria and Austria since decades. In northern Germany they dont have that.
Biggi.