in the years surrounding the Civil War there were a LOT of local semi-social semi-military "militia" clubs (companies) with their own "creative" fancy dress uniforms----{example the Zouaves---originally a Algerian French auxiliary unit of native recruits--(IIRC) who's outfits caught the fancy of militias both north and south}  Many entered state service as a unit in their fancy getups, and were federalized by both sides in the war. 
  Fancy costumes and titles were part of the nature of the social scene for the plethora of clubs, lodges, and associations, whether you were the Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World, KoC, Masons or whatever.  There is even a tie-in between the early fire companies and baseball uniforms.
  The point to this is that socially, uniforms and quasi military titles were very much a part of the general culture--especially in the urban areas.   Large numbers of German Americans and even recent immigrants from the urban German enclaves formed significant groups of locally raised volunteer enlisted companies and regiments during the Civil War. Some even used German as a common language within the ranks.  Federalized into service and as state troops they saw active service in almost all phases of the Civil War. 
It is not surprising to see some of this military veteran background merging with the traditional civilian Germanic social club structure----including the mostly male shooting clubs----yielding a formal semi-military structure mit der uniforms and ranks; especially for the parades and marches the preceded most of the major state regional and nation schuetzen-fests.

I don't know at what point ASSRA picked up and adopted the German title "schuetzenmeister" for "match director" or "range safety-officer".  Doing so seems a bit of a paradox since the early ASSRA did not encourage the use of the European schuetzen rifles in competition.

  F.Y.I.  ;
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