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Hebes405 Participating Member Offline Posts: 37 Location: Ohio Joined: Apr 18^th, 2023	Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches May 28^th, 2025 at 9:17pm	Print Post
	I'm looking for some history about schuetzen matches with the painted targets. The ones that were Usually of an animal. I'd like to put something on like this at my sportsman club. I'd like to know a little bit more about the history and how they used to host the competition and how you won.


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RSW Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1229 Location: Arizona Joined: Sep 8^th, 2006	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #1 - May 28^th, 2025 at 9:47pm	Print Post
	That was generally called a King target. Each competitor at a match was allowed one shot (offhand of course) at the target. Closest shot to the center won. It was a winner take all event (no second place). In Europe, there was a wooden peg inserted into each bullet hole that had the competitor's entry number painted on the peg. Many clubs decorated their shooting house walls and ceilings with those targets. Below is one I did recently for our ISSA regional match.

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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 3094 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #2 - May 28^th, 2025 at 10:02pm	Print Post
	When I first started shoring with the single shot crowd in Tacoma I only had a 45-70 Shiloh and a trapdoor and only shot the BP matches. I did try for the king and managed to get the last hand painted one that Joe Carr made using my trapdoor. I guess he had been making them for a while and was a good artist. I have been making them for Tacoma from tin signs or using printed material glued on. Jack

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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 3094 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #3 - May 28^th, 2025 at 10:39pm	Print Post
	here is my trapdoor king

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Hebes405 Participating Member Offline Posts: 37 Location: Ohio Joined: Apr 18^th, 2023	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #4 - May 29^th, 2025 at 9:17am	Print Post
	Thanks for the info. That was exactly what I was wondering about


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JHand Junior Member Online Posts: 84 Joined: Apr 15^th, 2024	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #5 - May 29^th, 2025 at 1:31pm	Print Post
	Here's the king target I won last year. We shoot it at our yearly .22 match. The winner of the target has to make the target for next year. I'm thinking about copying the cover from the Single Shot Exchange


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45govt Full Member Offline Posts: 213 Location: Nevada City, CA Joined: Oct 10^th, 2009	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #6 - May 30^th, 2025 at 4:04am	Print Post
	Hello Hebes405 Here are a couple of mine, I have another that I will have to post later as it is in the storage unit.

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Smoke Oldtimer Offline Posts: 752 Location: San Diego Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #7 - May 30^th, 2025 at 12:00pm	Print Post
	My favorite king target was brought into the Frontier Gun Shop in San Diego sometime back in the 1970s. It was a bunch of Papiermark (German) bills from the 20s, arrayed in a circle like a deck of cards fanned out by a dealer. They were all stamped with higher values, some had been stamped several times. The guy who brought it in said that when his father died he inherited a small fortune but he (the kid) was a minor. When he finally got his money he used it to buy dinner. I wish I had the sense to take a picture of the target. It had been used in a match.

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TRowe Full Member Offline Posts: 184 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2017	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #8 - May 30^th, 2025 at 8:25pm	Print Post
	A lot of these targets that were used in Germany are shown in the Alte Schibenwaffen books. Some of the shooting houses, museums etc. in Germany have targets that date back to the 1400s. The winner, was often the loser, as he had to pay for the banquet, as well as commission a target for the next year. This is still being done in Germany, and their traditional matches are a lot more fun than ours—plus they drink beer.


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45govt Full Member Offline Posts: 213 Location: Nevada City, CA Joined: Oct 10^th, 2009	Re: Looking for info about historic schuetzen matches Reply #9 - May 31^st, 2025 at 2:15am	Print Post
	Hello And here is the last target I have It was done by a Jennifer Weber back in the 80's she was selling them back when I first joined the ASSRA

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