"The Team to Beat was the Russians"
USSR-USA Showdown
USA Shooters were "Cold-war Warriors"
USSR-USA Showdown
USA Shooters were "Cold-war Warriors"
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| "Scheiben-Toni" Recreated from a post card by an artist in Lexington, NE |
The official motif of the 1966 World Championship in Wiesbaden, Germany featured a young boy in peasant clothing signaling a hit on a large wooden target. He has a target-marking disc in his hand and is calling the result, a near perfect center shot, to the shooters and spectators. Target marking was mainly done by boys, some children of the marksmen. The boys had to be quick as no trenches (or pits) were used. After each shot the boys ran from a safe distance to the targets to score them. The boys took great delight in marking a particularly good score on the target and were allowed to display theatrics in their shot signals. This boy, swinging marking disc and cap, is crying loudly for joy because of the great shot.
The World Championship motif was based on a famous German shooting motif called the “Scheiben-Toni” or target boy. The original Scheiben-Toni was painted by the German artist Hermann von Kaulbach for the 15th German Federal Shooting Festival in Munich in 1906. Von Kaulbach was born in 1846. Before the turn of the century he won a name for himself as the creator of historical-symbolic paintings.
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| Herman Von Kalbach b.1846 |
