Originally Posted by Borderbill
The pict of the metal is the one that Carcano said I should try for; for hitting a few targets.

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Greetings ! I see that you have survived your foray into True Civilization quite well. ;-)

The wearable plaque that you showed, initially made me wonder (because: "metal? when did I speak of metal?"). Only with the picture, I ultimately understood that we read here a beautiful and nowadays rare incursion into (American) English: a suevicism or swabianism. :-D
Only the very old in this forum, who still remember Texasdeutsch and Pennsylvania Dutch from the white-haired elders in the time of their youth, may understand...

Because in the Swabian dialect (with its habitual, but not always sincere understatement - be very careful not to *ever* respond to the self-disparaging or low-key remark of a Swabian about his house, his goods, or his car, in the selfsame tone, he will be mortally offended), any medal, decoration or order of chivalry is simply that: "a Blechle".
Even the "Pour le Mérite" (highest military decoration of the Great War, given e.g. to Rommel, and known colloquially as "Blue Max" in English) would be just lightly referred to as a "Blechle" by its proud Swabian holder, but did you not dare ever to ask one impudently what this mere blechle was earned for.

The Landesflintennadel as shown here is only conveyed by the State Hunting Association of Baden-Württemberg (Landesjagdverband Baden-Württemberg), while the "DJV-Jahresschießnadel Flinte" is (uniformly in all states except Bavaria) conveyed by the Federal Hunting Confederation (Deutscher Jagdverband).

For those interested in German "habits and rites" (to quote Pauline Réage), the qualification goals that are to be met are the following:

- Landesflintennadel BW: 10 targets "running hare" (a three-part metal falling target, moving on the ground at 35 metres' distance, 1 shot per target), *and* 15 clay air targets (Turbulenzautomat, 2 shots per target), of which 5 *each* must be hit successfully.

- DJV-Jahresschießnadel Flinte: 15 moving targets (can be selected at the shooter's choice, namely trap, skeet,running hare, rolling clay target on the round), of which only 4 must be hit.

Carcano