Tell us about the wooden eagle target match Biggi. With the cross bows.

   Joe.

I can tell you about weisenheimer beer and Octoberfest... *hiccups*      

Okay, will do that soon - in another thread. Have to look for those pics and the facts.

           Biggi. 

Holy dunkel! No wonder they came to like beer. I can not begin to imagine the quality of "wine" that flowed from those taps in that palace at the end of the year as it neared the bottom and had been exposed to air and all it bears with it. Mold, bacteria, wild yeast--and whatever surprises the happy taxpaying vintners may have chosen to amend their offerings with. Don't tell me there was enough alcohol left to sterilize things. As was pointed out, it didn't start out of quality and purity. Leave an open bottle of wine on the counter for a year, then pour some and I dare you to drink it. Beer is liquid bread.

Beer, food, shooting--sounds like a good life.

Sounds like a nice trip, with all that fine beer and wine.

But it doesn't sound like a paradise for schuetzen...   

            Biggi. 

The only cannon I remember seeing in Germany. Castle at Landshut?? Most likely a signal cannon for more wine to fill the big barrel.   

          Joe. 

feuerbixler wrote on Oct 4^th, 2012 at 1:05pm:


Great trip!  We saw another castle - the only  shootin' iron was a percussion muzzle loaging double barrel 20 ga.

But I do have a few pix (on the way to Ptuj) of fields of hops (for brewing beer).

Thanks for all the recent postings and info they contain, Biggi.  I would have responded sooner, but I've been at the Fall Nationals of our North-South Skirmish Association.  We wear uniforms like the old Union and Confederate forces and compete shoulder to shoulder with original or reproduction versions of the weapons used in the American Civil War (1861-65.)  Most weapons are percussion type, with a very few repeaters from fairly late in the war using fixed cartridges.  Competitions are organized for individuals and teams and involve shooting paper targets as well as breakables.  Weapons range from cap-and-ball revolvers through carbines and muskets all the way up to mortars and cannon.  Lots of smoke and noise!  Of course a good time is had by all!

Regards,
Froggie