Target water
Zielwasser (also: Visierwasser or Gewehröl ) denoted schnapps in the language of soldiers around 1900 as well as in the language of hunters , which was supposed to increase the accuracy of a shooter or to facilitate the work of cleaning rifles. In fact, alcohol may inhibit hand tremors .
Contrary to this evidence, Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz claims that it was customary in the Prussian army until 1918 to keep water buckets with ladles ready at shooting ranges , from which the shooters stepping into the stand or lying on the shooting table one or more scoops of water to drink was administered.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Horn: "The German Soldier Language" , 1899
- ↑ Otto Ernst Mausser: German soldier language - your structure and your problems presented , KJ Trübner (Strasbourg), 1917
- ↑ Wolfgang Forth, Ulrich Förstermann 2008: General and special pharmacology and toxicology: for students of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, chemistry and biology as well as for doctors, veterinarians and pharmacists, Elsevier, Urban & FischerVerlag, 2008, ISBN 3437444905 , ISBN 9783437444906 , p. 210
- ^ The Old Army , Berlin 1931 (pp. 83, 108)