Wolfgang via KI(Künstliche Intelligenz)/Ai(psudeo version of course, has found some most interesting info on the Berlin contingent of Retailers like Ludwig Schiwy, Ernst Steigledger, etc. along with Otto Gottlieb Scherell(Ballistol), Horst Goeldel(Probably the Best German Shot of all times), where members of the Jagd-Klub Diana Berlin dominated the Shooting Circuit and peddled their wares whilst doing so. Other actual makers like Paul Collath, Franz Collath, Franz Kettner also were fantastic competitors and also used the circuit & events for sales. This is a very similar modell that Charles Daly used to tout, as well as sell, his wares making a small fortune along the way. There's a tonne of info via KI and I will get it sorted.
Basically what these competitions did was to protect the German mechanics from being over-run w/ foreign made platforms. Take the above mentioned retailers, the pressed their wares w/ their name atop into service and proved thru stout competition that their platforms were superior.
Top shooters of interest were Horst Goeldel of Berlin/Grunewald, Gustav Koch of Derneburg, Dr. Rudolf Sack of Leipzig/Düsseldorf, and Dr. Kurt Schoebel.
But they may not have held a candle to Franz Denk driving the Omnibus to the Vienna Shooting Grounds.
Much more later....
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