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westerner wrote on Feb 23
rd, 2017 at 1:53am:
Have heard that all towns in Germany had many shooting clubs and houses. This thread could go on forever, thankfully. Great job, Biggi. Post more!
Joǝ.
Yes Joe, a lot of shooting in all German towns back then.
But just one big club per town with long distance range for feuerstutzens.
And those were the clubs with the "royal privileg".
The only town back then in Bavaria with two royal privileged clubs was Munich.
And this is a special story which might be told later.
But in most of the towns they had zimmerstutzen clubs since the 1850s, after the zimmerstutzen was invented. Most of the zimmerstutzen clubs shot in the back room of taverns or on the bowling alley (Kegelbahn). They shot on a distance of 9 to 18 meters, depended on the room they had for shooting.
It was easy to install a target and a thick board to cover the jester who showed the hit in the target. There were a lot of constructions for zimmerstutzen clubs how to manage the scoring. Here are three target installation examples for zimemrstutzen clubs to run the shooting evening.
Biggi.