2nd National & International German FT
Championships
Ebern, Bayern/Bavaria 5-6th July 2003
The story of the FT event - in English - can be seen on the
German FT web site
by clicking on this link - http://www.dftc2000.de/DM2003E.htm
The story, with several British mentions, is also in the online
Visier magazine: http://www.visier.de/1167.html
The full results are here - http://www.dftc2000.de/ERGEBNISLISTEN.pdf
Explanation of the classes of competition
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Class 1 |
Precharged rifles up to 12 ft. lb. |
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Class 2 |
Spring piston rifles up to 12 ft. lb. |
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Class 3 |
Precharged rifles up to 6.5 ft. lb. |
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Class 4 |
Spring piston rifles up to 6.5 ft. lb. |
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Sponsor |
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Sponsor |
Sponsors - Weirauchs |
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Cap badge -1st Deutscher Field Target Club 2000 |
Cap badge - Wolf Creek Field Target Shooting Club 2002, Bavaria |
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Cap badge - Polish Field Target Association |
Cap badge - Walther (cropped from blue cap) |
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Safety in English |
Sicherheit auf Deutsch |
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Notices around town |
Cornish flag in reply to Gerhard's Franken flag in Leipzig last year! |
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Zeroing on a Friday can be a lonely business! |
Three Brits - Monty, Dave & Cliff |
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Monty (standing) & Cliff |
Dave standing |
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Only one barrel per shooter from the brewery ...... |
I think I'll start mine here! |
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Refreshment on Friday afternoon |
Saturday morning - the kick-off! |
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Bavarian hunter's chorus ... in style |
Still going strong ..... |
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Lanes 1 to 8 in the first forest area - with Lt.Col. Nunn, patron of the event, looking on |
Its a 'brer' long way to Lane 9, boys! (that's Cornish) |
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.......... even on full zoom! |
Yep - that's Lane 9! |
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Mr. Cool .... just chillin' |
..... still chillin'! |
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Uli - from Visier magazine |
Uli - with Walther |
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Mike Pries - Walther |
Mike again |
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Dave Doe .......... |
........... on Lane 5 |
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Gerhard Einwag - local organiser |
Gerhard again |
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Monty - I always kiss 'em, y'know! |
.... and again |
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Martin Müller with Walther |
.... and again |
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Cliff Church |
.... and again |
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Klaus Barth |
Keith Ryan |
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Keith Ryan (Photo: Adrian Bismor) |
Keith Ryan (Photo: Adrian Bismor) |
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FT etiquette |
Cliff on the really dark (and steep) lane! |
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Cliff - on the last two lanes in the meadow |
What's good after a long, hard 60-shot course? |
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... and Bertus Land (Netherlands) |
Gerhard ........... and how many Euros? |
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Tomek & Adrian (Poland) |
Martin listening intently to Gerhard & his wife's story |
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German Red Cross on duty |
Morning refreshment with (from left) Michal, Adrian, Thomas & Pawel - some of the party of eight shooters from Poland - with Keith Ryan |
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Tomek (Poland) |
Andreas Einwag |
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Bumble bee on clover ... for Volker |
Gentian .. for Mary |
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Willi & friends on the course, or recovering en route? |
Uwe Schlosser and Christoph Schikora |
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Uwe |
Does a bear 'snap' in the woods? |
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Monty & Dave |
The shoot-off - Klasse 2 - German Championship |
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Uwe - in shoot-off with Piotr Polak |
Piotr - no sitting - its mostly Hunter style in Poland |
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Oyez - and I've got the pike! |
Gerhard & Volker - beginning to relax |
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Wilhelm Dahm - German Champion, Class 1 |
Mike Pries - 3rd |
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Wilhelm Dahm - German Champion, Class 2 |
Uwe Schlosser, 2nd in Classes 1 & 2 |
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Gerhard, 3rd in National Class 2 |
Mike Pries - 1st in National Class 3 |
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Martin Müller - 2nd in National Class 3 |
Klaus Barth - 3rd in National Class 3 |
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Adrian Bismor (Poland) - 1st in National Class 4 |
Christoph Schikora - 2nd in National Class 4 |
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Introducing the International Class results |
Winner Dave Doe with 56 ex 60 |
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2nd - Cliff Church with 55 ex 60 |
3rd - Keith Montague with 52 ex 60 |
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Gerhard readjusts his Wolf Creek club cap! |
Three Brits |
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Volker & Adrian |
The German Champion, Willi, with the Brits |
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Thank you to Frau Einwag |
Multi-lingual welcome at the gate in four languages - German, Polish, Dutch & English |
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After the competition - with an old friend in a bar in Brussels - Cheers! |
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