Any schuetzen activities/history to look for in Slovenia (next week)?

Še ena v vsaki od množice! Več jezikoslovec! 

Slovenia kann zu weit von Der Schweiz nicht sein und es gibt vieles Schießen dort.

You shouldn't mix up Slovenian and Slovakian language. These are two different languages and two different countries.

Slovenia is a small part of the former communist republic of Yugoslavia. 
And 
Slovakia is a part of the former communist republic of Czechoslovakia.

I think in both countries is no real schuetzen history to find. These were poor countries, no free people at any time. Before the communism came, they were living in the Kaiser-Reich (empire) of Austria-Hungaria. A few people were aristocratic and noble, so they went for hunting in their mountains. And the big amount of people were poor families living in the countryside and had to help the rich farmers. Both countries weren't very developed in the old days.

Maybe nowadays they are sport-shooters with small-bore .22 rifles or air rifles. But there might be not much history in schuetzen rifles, maybe a bit hunting rifles history.

              Biggi.   

Post the target from Budapest again,  here. 

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Joe. 

westerner wrote on Sep 25^th, 2012 at 8:30pm:


I will when I find it; likely after I get back from Slovenia.
Thanks.

And now Slovenia. It is a part of the former communist "melting-pot country" Yugoslavia. Its far in the north, close to the Austrian and Italian border. In the old days, also Slovenia belonged to the big Austria-Hungarian Empire. So they had a strong German Austrian cultural imprint. And the country consists mostly out of forests and mountains.

All the mentioned countries Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic and Slovakia), Hungary and Slovenia (ex Yugoslavia) were after WWII behind the iron curtain. All were communist states, where private rifles were not allowed. So the famous sports and hunting rifle manufactures were "converted" to arms factories for the respective army.

Nowadays all these countries are since 20 years free democratic states, or they try to be. But after being exploited countries or king-empires in the old days, and a trial with democracy between WWI and WWII, and then 50 years of communism, there is not much rifle-history left over.

So its nice to see the picture of the target cat_whisperer posted, that there are some relicts left of the old days, in museums, fortresses and castles.

           Biggi. 

In the old old days, whole Europe consisted of small kingdoms, dukedoms, shires, tribes, natives, rich families, king families and so on. And for sure the Old Holy Roman Empire. They made their politics with marriages and alliances - and also a lot of wars. So they enlarged their properties and some got mighty, some others lost their political power.

In the 1800s, they started to build powerful empires, out of smaller kingdoms and areas. So Europe started to get "real political borders". The northern part of nowadays Germany built "Prussia", the South with Bavaria was still free separate states. The Austria-Hungarian Empire was also real mighty and a big area. Other regions of Europe made nearly the same, but I am not so smart on French or Spanish history. And the big British Empire was important too.

With the old politics, making big empires out of different tribes, they didn't had much luck. The tribes were too different, different roots, different culture. But with a dictatorship or a powerful king one could hold together so much different peoples. After WWI, when there was nearly not any king left in Europe, the regions separated again, like Hungary and Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech, Croatia, Bosnia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and so on.

But then WWII came and Europe was wracked and ruined. The iron curtain divided Europe in East and West. The Allied forces in West and East draw new frontiers through middle and eastern Europe. So the dictatorships in Eastern Europe had again a lot of smaller tribes and countries together in one Communistic State. Like in Yugoslavia. 

Till the 1970s, it was nearly not possible to travel to eastern Europe. And for east Europeans it was not possible to be in contact with west Europeans and for them traveling was completely impossible.

After the cold war and the break down of the iron curtain round 1990, all the former "melted countries" wanted to separate again. Because only the dictatorships could hold them together.