Tesching

The Tesching (also Teschink, Tisching, French Teschin ('rifle')) is a small-caliber handgun (up to 6.5 mm) that propels a low-weight projectile at a short distance (10 to 20 meters) using the primer filling. It is supposedly named after the city of Teschen . Flobert weapons are also known as Tesching.

The weapon was used in many places for sport shooting at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. A number of shooting clubs therefore have the designation Tesching or Teschin in their name. Occasionally long guns that did not use powder but only a primer to propel the bullet were called Tesching. Weapons of this caliber were also often used for hunting by young people. Due to the low penetration power, however, it could only be used to hunt small game such as birds from close range.

In his novel Die Gerechten von Kummerow the writer Ehm Welk writes that owning a Tesching was the longing goal of the male village youth of Kummerow, but only Eberhard, the count's son, had one as a gift from his father.

literature

• Charles Conklin: Military Cartridge Headstamps. Collectors Guide, Code Book . Heritage Books Inc., Westminister MD 2006, ISBN 978-0-7884-4117-2 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Tesching  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tesching . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 396 ( zeno.org [accessed August 12, 2009]).
2. ^ Charles Conklin, Military Cartridge Headstamps Collectors Guide , 39.
3. ↑ Brockhaus 1911
4. ^ Hans Graf von Lehndorff : people, horses, wide country. 2001. Alexander Prince zu Dohna-Schlobitten : Memories of an old East Prussia. Settlers, 1989.
5. ↑ Ehm Welk : The Righteous von Kummerow . VEB Hinstorff Verlag , 1969.