Shooting gallery
A shooting gallery is an attraction at fairs , fairgrounds , cathedrals and other special events.
nature
The shooting gallery is a mobile house that is open on one long side. On it, visitors to the fair can try to collect as many points as possible by shooting passing objects or fixed plastic or plaster tubes or plates. The targets are usually about two meters away.
The objects are on different levels. The target objects passing by can have different speeds depending on the level. In addition, depending on the number of points, there are various prizes ( cuddly toys, toys ) to be won, which the shooting gallery owner, who is in the shooting gallery, hands over to the visitor. The best-known targets are clay figurines, plaster tubes, champagne bottles, shooting , rotating and folding targets .
Shooting device
A special air rifle is used for shooting , which must either be reloaded after each shot or, when shooting at moving targets, the ammunition can be automatically reloaded from a bullet magazine. Either break-barrel rifles are used (only suitable for single shots) or rifles that are provided with a side loading lever like a carbine rifle (also only suitable for single shots) and can reload the ammunition used (mostly round balls made of lead) from a magazine or rifles that Automatically reload a bullet from the magazine each time the trigger is operated. Mostly the air rifle carbines Diana model 30, Anschütz 275 or the Haenel 310 are represented on shooting galleries. Air rifles for shooting ranges are unsuitable for sport shooting , because on the one hand they cannot hit precisely at 10 meters (the standard distance for sport shooting with air guns) and on the other hand the ammunition used does not guarantee a stable trajectory at 10 meters.
Regulations
The operator of a shooting gallery in Germany must have a permit for his shooting range in accordance with Section 27 (1) WaffG (referred to there as “shooting for amusement” ). In terms of safety, the shooting gallery must be approved by a shooting range expert and by TÜV .
In a variant of the shooting gallery, light point rifles are used and shooting is carried out at targets that are equipped with a sensor and trigger an action with moving figures when hit. Since this variant does not fire with real rifles and ammunition, it is not necessary to have it checked by a shooting range expert.
Different meaning
- “Shooting gallery” is also a slang term for the drum kit .
- A team with a bad defensive and therefore many goals is often referred to as a “shooting gallery” in football.
Similar attractions
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Throwing
cans The visitors have to try to knock over 6 to 15 cans, which are set up like a pyramid, with as few throws as possible with usually 3 to 4 balls.
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Booths with balloons
Here, visitors have to try to burst as many balloons hanging on a wall as possible with as few arrows thrown as possible.
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Lottery
Visitors can draw or buy lots here. Depending on the coincidence, there is either a different price or a rivet in the lots.
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Fishing game
Here visitors have to try to fish numbered plastic ducks out of the drifting water with a toy fishing rod with a small magnet at the end of the line. The numbers of the ducks represent the different sized prices.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sacha-Roger Szabo: Rausch und Rummel: Attractions at fairs and amusement parks: a sociological cultural history . Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-566-9 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ http://www.schiessstandsachverstaendiger.de/docs/pruefprotokoll_schiessgeschaeft.doc
- ↑ On paragraph 7: The regulation removes portable shooting ranges that are used to amuse shooting with compressed air or spring-loaded weapons and weapons that use cold propellant gases to propel the projectiles (shooting galleries at fairs, etc.) and which were not previously subject to weapons law , from the provisions of § 10 Paragraph 1 to 6. This does not affect requirements according to other regulations, such as trade law. In addition, Section 27 (6) of the Weapons Act itself contains a special regulation on the supervision of children (PDF; 238 kB)
