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Beautyiful Honor Targets

Aug 13^th, 2012 at 1:13pm

Just want to start a new thread, where one can show nice honor targets, historical honor targets or respectable king's targets.

I think, most of us have seen somewhere at a range or club house some nice targets - or even at home, when you won a target. A lot of targets are often boring, but others are real good or a real masterpiece. And some targets are just funny!

Other targets have an interesting story, which one can tell too.

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Reply #1 - Aug 13^th, 2012 at 1:15pm

I want to start with a real nice and funny target. I saw this target last Saturday at a small traditional shooting range in Tyrol/Austria. I have been the first time at this range. The range was built in 1906, its a real historical small range with five fire points on the distance of 150 meters (165 yards).

The club had in the old days each year a so-called "Widder-Schießen", translated "Big Horn Sheep Match". The winner on the honor target won a real big horn sheep. The whole club house was decorated with targets, also a lot of targets with a big horn sheep on it.

But this target I took the picture, was the real greatest target. Such a funny hunter, in winter in the Austrian Alps, sledding downhill on the horns of the sheep.

Look at his face! Wink

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Jerry_H Full Forum Member Offline Posts: 126	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #2 - Aug 13^th, 2012 at 1:49pm I won this King Target at the May, 2012 Western Regional Schuetzenfest in Modesto ,CA. I like the look on the antelope's face. Jerry H
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32 ballard xl Full Forum Member Offline Stand on your hind legs Posts: 249	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #3 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:58pm For Biggi: One of the antelope's many nick-names is "speed goat", which is pretty descriptive.
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feuerbixler Oldtimer Offline Posts: 555	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #4 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 3:24pm Yep, speed goat fits! And the view of the antelope is like "Oh, damned, there was a speed control!" Biggi.
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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4387	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #5 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:13pm I like the expression on the eagles face when I hit him where it counts. Joe.
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Fritz Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 267	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #6 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:30pm Joe,That's a real nice looking Honor Target--Fritz
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Reply #7 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:55pm

Joe Carr made the target. It's the TR&R medal. Joe does good at just about everything. I used a 38/55 breech muzzle loader with iron sights to win the target. Aimed for the middle and was lucky to win it.

Biggi's target is really beautiful and whimsical. 1978? Looks very old. Wished we got that many shooters at our matches these days.

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Fritz Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 267	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #8 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 7:01pm I almost fell off my chair looking at the hunter's facial expression coming down the hill--I bet it was a task for the person scoring this target!!!
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Reply #9 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 7:01pm

westerner wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:

Biggi's target is really beautiful and whimsical. 1978? Looks very old. Wished we got that many shooters at our matches these days.

Yep, this big horn sheep target was a nice target. It was, it doesn't exist anymore.

One day after we had the match at this historical range, and I took the picture of the target, somebody burned down the range. The whole wooden interior of the old building and nearly all the targets are gone forever. I cannot understand what kind of morons can do that!

Biggi. Cry

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Hank12 Full Forum Member Offline Posts: 99	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #10 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 7:21pm Joe, GOOD SHOT!, I thought I'd shot about everything but I'm not familiar with these targets. I assume offhand but how far? 200 yds.? Hank
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skratch Full Forum Member Offline Posts: 94	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #11 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 9:57pm Biggi, I truly hate to hear about your range, We have those kind of people here in the U.S. also and I can't understand their way of thinking either. Glad you able to take pictures of the targets before they were destroyed. John...
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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4387	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #12 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:04pm Hank12 wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 7:21pm: Joe, GOOD SHOT!, I thought I'd shot about everything but I'm not familiar with these targets. I assume offhand but how far? 200 yds.? Hank Yep, one shot offhand at 200 yards. Heckeling the shooter is fun too. Joe.
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Hank12 Full Forum Member Offline Posts: 99	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #13 - Aug 20^th, 2012 at 11:56am Thanks, Joe Hank
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 1743	Re: Beautyiful Honor Targets Reply #14 - Aug 20^th, 2012 at 1:30pm Here's one I posted on a thread here awhile back. Unfortuntely before I got it some "expert" did a wonderful job of patching all the holes from the back side! Here's one I won at a local muzzleloader match back in 2008.
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